Nov 25, 2010

Illegal business: Traffic of animals





A very serious problem around the animals is the illegal traffic of them.
The trade of protected animals is the third most profitable illegal business in the world, after the drugs and arms sales.

The contries most affected by this problem are Argentina, Indonesia, Thailand and Spain.

Rhinoceroces, tigers, elephants, chimpanzees, crocodiles, leopards and exotic birds and frogs are only some animals that are in danger of extinction because they are captured to be sold or to obtain food, skins, thophies, teeth, tourist objects, traditional medicines and others things.

The most miserable of the illegal traffic of animals is:
Three quarters parts of the animals die during the capture, transportation and marketing, so new captures will be necessaries to meet the demand of the clandestine market.

Consequences of the illegal traffic of animals:
  • Alters populations of protected animals
  • Declines and causes direct effects on others species and subsequently disrupts the food chain.
  • And the most important and worrisome is the loss of biodiversity in the world.
Animals proteccion in danger of extinction:


Several institutions make a big effort to be aware of the gravity of this problem.

There are laws that control the periods of time and the maximum number of animals that is permitted to hunt.

Also there are people that protect the species in periods of match up and breed.

However, ultil now all this hasn't been enough to stop the illegal traffic of animals.


8 comments:

kRuDeR said...

Well said Carmen the people who do that must not exist because they alter the balance of life.

Isr@el said...

That is a serious subject, I think that all the animals have their own rights in the same way as the humans and must live in their own atmosphere because at the end of everything they are beings we saw and also they are part of this world is not only ours.

faby said...

Animal traffic is a very despicable act, because no one thinks about the damage to do them and who performs the act is a person without scruples.

we must notify to the authorities when we know of these cases.

Adriano said...

We should be more conscious about the animals because they deserve living like a human without injustice in their lives...it colud be probable they sometimes attack people because they want to be free and live in their wild life.

judith said...

I think that every single person above the earth should have respect by the life, no matter if are animal lives or human lives, this people don't know the damage that they are causing to the planet.

Paty said...

This activity is a shame, because it shows the disrespect at the world, and it happen in our industry because some souveniers are made with parts of the animals and here we can do something: suggest to the tourist don´t buy this kind of "souvenier".
We should remember that we are the conexion between Mexico and our tourist and they almost always trust in us.
So let do it!

Francisco said...
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Francisco said...

How can people do it???? Well my question doesn´t has sence, how many times you´ve seen that we don´t respect us each other, even as a person.

Humanity has a really long distance to mature about this sort of problems

Note: Never buy an animal like them.