The Illegal Trading of Live Animals

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The illegal trade of live animals 1- The problems and issues with the illegal trade of live animals. 2- Explanation of why the problem or issue continues 3- What groups or organsations who are trying to help and what are they doing to help prevent/stop the illegal trade of animals. 4- Information about what individual people can do to help. The illegal trade of live animals, also known as the ‘Wildlife black-market’ is a multi-billionaire business that captures wild animals from their natural habitat and ships them around the county or world, for money or other items that is needed such as food, tools etc. Hundreds of millions of animals every year are being taken from their natural habitat to be sold illegally. The main types of animals that are being sold illegally are reptiles and birds which are most popular in the USA, Japan and Europe. In Australia, the main animal to be sold illegally is the black cockatoo species, which can be sold for up to $30,000. The demand for trading of illegal animals has risen extremely high over the past few years, increasing the value of illegal trading. The trading of illegal animals is the third most common illegal trading, the first being drugs and the second being human trafficking. Illegal trading of animals is not very well known because illegal trading of drugs and human trafficking is more known because of the media attention it creates. Not being educated is one of the main reasons that many people don’t actually know that the animals that they have just got are illegal where they live. Much of the global trade in these animals is accounted for by tourist souvenirs, traditional medicine and bush meat. The illegal trade for these accounts is becoming more and more common, and the laws just aren’t providing enough enforcement to prevent and stop the illegal trading of animals. Many of the wild
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