20 August: The Tiger Cartel

On the Asian black market, a dead adult tiger is worth around $50,000. Their bones are melted down into tiger glue, said to provide health benefits, fuelling a multi-billion-dollar industry. In this exclusive investigation, we track down the kingpins of a powerful tiger cartel stretching across Thailand, Vietnam, Laos and China and infiltrate their clandestine factory farms where tigers are factory-farmed like livestock.