Donkey leather
Objects made from donkey leather are not known. Donkey skins are processed in China to produce gelatine, which is then used in the manufacture of traditional medicine. The Chinese call this raw material "ejiao" (also "colla corii asini" or "donkey hide glue").
Since keeping donkeys has declined in China, skins have been smuggled into the country. In 2015 1,200 donkey hides from Karachi in Pakistan were seized in Hong Kong and another 4,736 donkey hides in 2017 in Karachi. Exports were banned because donkeys were illegally slaughtered or poisoned and the skins and the meat were offered for sale with false declarations.
In 2016, several men were arrested in Botswana who illegally tried to sell donkey skins in Hong Kong and China.
It was estimated in 2017 that about 1 million donkey skins are traded every year, but the demand from China is more likely to be between 4 and 10 million hides.
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Leather of different animal species - Exotic leather
Other exotic leather
- Alligator leather
- Alpaca fur
- Antelope leather
- Armadillo leather
- Bird leather
- Bull testicles
- Caiman leather
- Camel leather
- Carpincho leather
- Cat fur
- Chicken leather
- Crocodile leather
- Dog leather
- Elephant leather
- Fish leather: Eel, shark, salmon, moray eel, stingray and many others
- Frog leather - Toad leather
- Giraffe leather
- Hippo Leather
- Horsehide - Horse leather
- Kangaroo leather
- Llama Fur
- Lizard leather
- Ostrich leather
- Pangolin leather
- Peccary leather
- Rumen leather
- Sealskin leather
- Snakeskin
- Turtle skin
- Walrus leather
- Yak leather
- Zebra hide
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