Table of Contents
- 1 What is wildlife trade Why is it useful?
- 2 What is the legal wildlife trade?
- 3 What is wildlife trade why it is harmful?
- 4 What is the impact of the illegal wildlife trade on biodiversity?
- 5 What are the objectives of wildlife Protection Act which wildlife products are traded illegally?
- 6 How can you help to preventing illegal wildlife trade?
- 7 Why is wildlife crime important?
What is wildlife trade Why is it useful?
Perhaps the most obvious problem associated with wildlife trade is that it can cause overexploitation to the point where the survival of a species hangs in the balance.
What is the legal wildlife trade?
Wildlife trade is any sale or exchange of wild animal and plant resources by people. Wildlife trade is an issue at the heart of the tension between biodiversity conservation and human development. The legal trade in wildlife products is often overshadowed by wildlife crime and illegal trade.
Why should we care about illegal wildlife trade?
Wildlife trade threatens the local ecosystem, and puts all species under additional pressure at a time when they are facing threats such as over-fishing, pollution, dredging, deforestation and other forms of habitat destruction.
What is wildlife trade why it is harmful?
The illegal wildlife trade has been linked to the emergence and spread of new infectious diseases in humans, including emergent viruses.
What is the impact of the illegal wildlife trade on biodiversity?
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.
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.
What are the objectives of wildlife Protection Act which wildlife products are traded illegally?
How can you help to preventing illegal wildlife trade?
- 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 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 is wildlife crime important?
Wildlife crime is serious Wildlife trafficking can destroy the natural resources on which national economies and livelihoods depend. It undermines conservation efforts, as well as efforts to eliminate poverty and to develop sustainable economic opportunities for rural communities.