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How can we protect animals from illegal hunting?
Extraordinary Ways to Stop Poaching
- Engage the public.
- Recruit more wildlife scouts.
- Make tougher laws.
- Give the animals a sanctuary.
- Zoning (Demarcate land for the wild animals)
- Put more trackers and sensors in the wild.
- Outlaw the purchase and sale of animal parts and products.
How does illegal wildlife trade affect the environment?
Illegal wildlife trade is also often unsustainable, harming wild populations of animals and plants and pushing endangered species toward extinction. Endangered animals and plants are often the target of wildlife crime because of their rarity and increased economic value.
What are some factors that drive the illegal wildlife trade?
Habitat destruction and poaching to supply the international illegal wildlife trade (IWT) are two key drivers of this grave problem.
What is the most illegally hunted and traded animal in the world?
Pangolins
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 can we stop illegal trading?
- How to Stop Wildlife Trafficking? There are ways through which we can reduce, if not completely stop, poaching.
- The banning of wildlife illegally traded.
- Stricter domestic trade regulations.
- Increasing the funding to tackle and prosecute illegal poachers.
- Empowering the people.
How can we stop illegal trade?
Here is what you can do to help:
- Ask before you buy.
- Stick to certified products.
- Choose sustainable, eco-friendly pets.
- Eat only sustainable seafood.
- Petition your local government to stop or restrict legal ivory trade.
- Pledge your support.
- Report any illegal wildlife trade.
How does international trade affect the environment?
Economic growth resulting from trade expansion can have an obvious direct impact on the environment by increasing pollution or degrading natural resources. Similarly, trade and investment liberalisation can provide firms with incentives to adopt more stringent environmental standards.
How are animals affected by wildlife trade?
Wildlife trade escalates into a crisis when an increasing proportion is illegal and unsustainable—directly threatening the survival of many species in the wild. Stamping out wildlife crime is a priority for WWF because it’s the largest direct threat to the future of many of the world’s most threatened species.
What are the main causes of threat to wildlife?
Wildlife on planet Earth is under siege from all sides, facing down habitat loss and the impact of climate change. Some of the biggest threats to wildlife include illegal wildlife trade, habitat destruction, invasive species, pollution, and clime change.
What is harmful about wildlife trade?
Illegal wildlife trade has many negative consequences for human well-being and species conservation. When criminal actors trade in endangered species, they weaken entire ecosystems and they threaten essential links of the world’s biological diversity.
What is the illegal wildlife trade?
Below are some key actions we take to work towards a sustained reduction in poaching and illicit wildlife trade. This is our “Red stream” Theory of Change – mapping how we’re working to achieve our conservation objectives relating to wildlife crime and illegal trade.
What is illegal wildlife trade in international affairs?
International Affairs. Home >> Travel & Trade >> Illegal Wildlife Trade. Credit: USFWS. Illegal wildlife trade is estimated to be a multibillion-dollar business involving the unlawful harvest of and trade in live animals and plants or parts and products derived from them.
How many wildlife species are threatened by illegal and unsustainable trade?
Thousands of wildlife species are threatened by illegal and unsustainable wildlife trade. For example, in recent months significant media attention has gone to the plight of the world’s rhinoceros species, which are facing increased poaching as demand for their horns increases in Asia.
Are You following the law when importing wildlife and wildlife products?
To ensure that you are following the law when importing or exporting wildlife and wildlife products, visit our Travel and Trade section and our Branch of Permits page. Also visit our How You Can Help page for tips on how you can reduce the illegal trade of endangered and threatened species.
What is WCU doing in Sumatra to monitor illegal wildlife trade?
Monitoring for illegal wildlife trade has been expanded to other sites outside Lampung Province in Sumatra, where WCU has been working for the last 6 years, to include Palembang in South Sumatra and Jakarta, the capital of Sumatra.