A factory slaughtering and processing endangered whale sharks have been discovered in China. Whale sharks, it appears, are fighting a losing battle. Though whale sharks are officially listed as a vulnerable species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) as well as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), recently, a "shark slaughterhouse" was uncovered by conservation activists in the Zhejiang proving in China.