Animalscaretips
- Why should we be concerned about illegal trade in animals?
- Why do people buy illegal wildlife?
- Why are animals illegally traded?
- Why should poaching be illegal?
- What is the impact of illegal trade?
- What are the impacts of illegal wildlife trade?
- Why are animals traded?
- Why we should not buy products made from animal parts?
- How many animals are illegally trafficked each year?
- What is the most illegally traded animal?
- How does illegal wildlife trade affect the economy?
- Why has government made laws to protect wild animals?
- Why we should stop killing elephants?
- Do poachers get killed?
- Why should we not poach animals?
Why should we be concerned about illegal trade in animals?
Prolonged and inappropriate transportation — smuggled animals may suffer from dehydration and starvation during transport and mortality rates can be extremely high. Injury and ill-health — animals may suffer painful, debilitating and in some cases fatal injuries and disease.
Why do people buy illegal wildlife?
Some wildlife consumers are motivated by spiritual needs, or the need to bring protection, luck, or fortune in business and life. Can include: Using wildlife products to enhance spiritual wellbeing; religious practices; performing rituals or traditions.
Why are animals illegally traded?
Illegal wildlife trade is driven by high profit margins and, in many cases, the high prices paid for rare species. Vulnerable wild animals are pushed further to the edge of extinction when nature can't replenish their stocks to keep up with the rate of human consumption.
Why should poaching be illegal?
Poaching is a threat not only for elephants and other animals, but for the whole global community. Wildlife crime is a huge business, lead by dangerous international illicit organizations, wildlife are trafficked like illegal drugs and weapons. ... To tackle poaching is essential to give a strong international response.
What is the impact of illegal trade?
The economic and environmental impacts of illegal trade can be sufficiently important to disrupt whole economies and ecosystems, undermining environmentally sustainable activities and reducing future options for the use of resources. There can be spillover effects, with indirect consequences.
What are the impacts of illegal wildlife trade?
Global illegal wildlife trading is a major threat to environmental biosecurity, biodiversity, human health and wellbeing and directly threatens tens of thousands of species. It is also a likely source of invasive species.
Why are animals traded?
Whilst most examples of legal trade of wildlife are as a result of large population numbers or pests, there is potential for the use of legal trade to reduce illegal trade threatening many species. Legalizing the trade of species can allow for more regulated harvesting of animals and prevent illegal over-harvesting.
Why we should not buy products made from animal parts?
Answer: because it's not more useful and also it is too costly andit also harms our environment and wildlife... or they are sometimes attacked by microbes so that can be harmful...
How many animals are illegally trafficked each year?
Birds are the most common contraband; the State Department estimates that two million to five million wild birds, from hummingbirds to parrots to harpy eagles, are traded illegally worldwide every year. Millions of turtles, crocodiles, snakes and other reptiles are also trafficked, as well as mammals and insects.
What is the most illegally traded animal?
Pangolins are believed to be the world's most trafficked mammal, accounting for as much as 20% of all illegal wildlife trade. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), more than a million pangolins were poached in the decade prior to 2014.
How does illegal wildlife trade affect the economy?
Wildlife crime undermines the economic prosperity of countries and communities in the region, deteriorating their natural capital, social stability and cohesion, and threatening sustainable economic development, including the erosion of benefits derived from legal nature-based enterprises like tourism.
Why has government made laws to protect wild animals?
The Government of India enacted Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972 with the objective to effectively protect the wild life of this country and to control poaching, smuggling and illegal trade in wildlife and its derivatives.
Why we should stop killing elephants?
Poaching threatens many species and can contribute to extinction. It can also have a tremendous impact on the environment, especially when a keystone species such as the elephant is targeted. A keystone species is an animal that plays a critical role in its ecological community.
Do poachers get killed?
In 2019, a suspected rhino poacher was killed by an elephant and then “devoured” by lions, park officials said at the time. All that was found were his skull and a pair of pants. Last year, South Africa noted a significant drop in rhino poaching, with killings falling 33 percent.
Why should we not poach animals?
Poaching has devastating consequences for wildlife. In some instances, it's the primary reason why an animal faces a risk of extinction. This is the case with the African elephant, more than 100,000 of which were killed between 2014 and 2017 for ivory. ... And poached animals can spread disease, such as Ebola and SARS.
