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Viagra success saves threatened wildlife
From:
The Scotsman
| Date:
October 18, 2002| Author:
JAMES REYNOLDS Environment Correspondent
| Copyright 2002 The Scotsman. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information
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A BOOM in the worldwide use of Viagra, the drug used to counter
impotence in men, could have produced a side-effect that its
producers never expected.
Researchers at the University of New South Wales, in Australia,
have found that the drug could be the salvation of many of the
world's species that are exploited to aid men searching for increased
sexual potency.
For centuries, animals such as seals, musk deer, tigers, rhinos
and sea horses have been killed for body parts said to...
