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Illegal Wildlife Trade
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Illegal Wildlife Trade
By: Elianny Rodriguez

Hypothesis
▪ The illegal wildlife trade is decreasing biodiversity in

ecosystems and pushing rare species toward extinction.

www.usatoday.com

Wildlife trade

http://worldwildlife.o rg/ A study released in 2013 found that illegal trade in wildlife is the forth largest illegal trade and was valued at over $19 billion per year.

▪ It is known that the trade is used to finance drug and arms trade as well.

▪ In 2011 23 metric tons of ivory was seized: That represents 2,500 elephants annamiticus.com

5 Most endangered species due to illegal animal trade
Animal

Why?

1.Rhinos

Their horns; It’s partly due to the rumor that their horns can cure cancer and hangovers.

3. Marine turtles

Being hunted for their meat and eggs due to wide demand for both. Turtles are also a product of bycatch .

4. Elephants
5. Sharks

One word: Ivory.

Sharks are hunted for their fins, which are used as an ingredient in some soups. It is estimated that 73 million sharks are killed every year for this very reason.

Big Cats
• For every tiger or lion trapped in a zoo, “there may be as many as 10 privately owned.”
• There are as little as 3,200 tigers in the wild while nearly double that amount are in zoos or kept as pets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwi defc2wpc
A new study concludes that the decline of large predators and herbivores in all regions of the world is causing substantial changes to all of the Earth’s ecosystems. The paper claims that the loss of apex predators from ecosystems
"may be humankind 's most pervasive influence on nature."

Removing apex predators and large herbivores affects structure, function, and biodiversity of most natural ecosystems.
▪ The reduction of big cats from areas of Africa caused the baboon population to grow. This increased transmission of intestinal parasites from baboons to humans since the primates were forced to forage closer to human settlements.

▪ Losing this animals causes


Cited: 1. Daszak P, Cunningham AA, Hyatt AD. 2000. Emerging infectious diseases of wildlife--threats to biodiversity and human health 2. Stoett P. 2002. The international regulation of trade in wildlife: Institutional and normative considerations 3. Johnson PTJ, Preston DL, Hoverman JT, Richgels KLD. 2013. Biodiversity decreases disease through predictable changes in host community competence. Nature 494(7436):230-3. 4. Sarkar S. 1999. Wilderness perservation and biodiversity conservation-keeping divergent goals distinct. Bioscience 49(5):405-12. 5. Johannesen ABORGE. 2005. Wildlife conservation policies and incentives to hunt: An empirical analysis of illegal hunting in western serengeti, tanzania. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110714142133.htm (accessed April 21, 2014).
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