Talk:Wildlife trade

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For the US Gov't efforts on this along with some pictures of celeb activists, see http://www.state.gov/g/oes/ Mikebar (talk) 09:55, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Try the WWF page on wildlife trading in the ammazon for more info, the page is copywrited, but it could be re-written for use on wikipiedia Superbun (talk) 15:27, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Illegal wildlife trade Interpol has estimated the extent of the illegal wildlife trade between $10 billion and $20 billion per year. While the trade is a global one, with routes extending to every continent, conservationists say the problem is most acute in Southeast Asia. There, trade linkages to key markets in China, the United States, and the European Union; lax law enforcement; weak border controls; and the perception of high profit and low risk contribute to large-scale commercial wildlife trafficking. The ASEAN Wildlife Enforcement Network, supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development and outside funders, is one response to the region's illegal wildlife trade networks.

Notable trade hubs of the wildlife trade include Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok, which offers smugglers direct jet service to Europe, the Middle East, North America and Africa. The Chatuchak weekend market in Bangkok is a known center of illicit wildlife trade, and the sale of lizards, primates, and other endangered species has been widely documented. Trade routes connecting in Southeast Asia link Madagascar to the United States (for the sale of turtles, lemurs, and other primates), Cambodia to Japan (for the sale of slow lorises as pets), and the sale of many species to China.

Despite international and local laws designed to crack down on the trade, live animals and animal parts — often those of endangered or threatened species - are sold in open-air markets throughout Asia. The animals involved in the trade end up as trophies, or in specialty restaurants. Some are used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Despite the name, elements of TCM are widely adopted throughout East and Southeast Asia, among both Chinese and non-Chinese communities.

The trade also includes demand for exotic pets, and consumption of wildlife for meat. Large volumes of fresh water tortoises and turtles, snakes, pangolins and monitor lizards are consumed as meat in Asia, including in specialty restaurants that feature wildlife as gourmet. 08:57, 4 June 2010 (UTC) style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.57.147.3 (talk) 04:46, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

illegal wildlife trade, re: global monetary value
In the article, I deleted this sentence in the section illegal wildlife trade at the end of 2nd paragraph, re: global monetary value
 * But there is no hard data supporting this claim, and recently the CITES Secretariat has disavowed this statistic.

Because: I searched publications and press releases at the websites of CITES, Interpol and UNEP, but did not find any such disavowal. And leave it to the interested community to find the needed citation. -- BhagyaMani (talk) 12:16, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Exotic pet trade
Although inferred in this article, the subject of exotic pet trade is not specifically addressed. There is an article on Wildlife smuggling, but nothing on the legal trade of exotic animals (not only as pets, but for zoos, etc.) ~E 74.60.29.141 (talk) 18:10, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

Abalone traded for arms
According to a documentary by Simon Reeve (Indian Ocean), abalone is traded for drugs in South Africa (abalone being very valuable in China). Perhaps that a suitable method to destroy/disrupt this trade would be to grow abalone near the Chinese coast using aquaculture. 109.130.199.88 (talk) 15:23, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

Copyright problem
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cost of animals in origin country
In the documentary "Madagascar, Land of the Chameleons", it struck me that the chameleons only cost 2 €/piece, so environmental organisations could easily buy up the whole lot for re-release. Perhaps this method could be mentioned in article; it should be much more effective to environmental organisations than wasting money on campaigns KVDP (talk) 10:23, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

Confusion / text flow
There is choppy writing in this article that is confusing and repetitive. It bounces around distractedly instead of keeping focused on topic, and seems below typical standards of a Wikipedia article. One small example:


 * International wildlife trade can be classified in 2 forms: Still, it's a serious threat to a number of endangered and vulnerable species. The removal of species from regions which are part of illegal wildlife trade may cause severe problems for the local ecosystem.

The above paragraph is followed by one bullet point, instead of two.

I'd like to mark the whole article for review, (not sure how). I know that I could take it on as a project, but I don't know the original writers intent, this not my area of expertise (when has that stopped me?), and I don't see any time to do it very soon.

GeeBee60 (talk) 20:07, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

I also noticed those issues, I tried to clean a little bit in the intro and some points while adding more references, but there is still a lot of work to do. Jrfep (talk) 05:13, 2 May 2016 (UTC)