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Many iconic species are being pushed to the brink of extinction. Let’s stop wildlife crime.
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A confiscated cheetah inside a cage seized from animal traffickers at an unknown location in Tanzania
Photograph: RWP/EPA
(Source: Guardian)
RSPCA:
In November, four elephant calves were caught from the wild, removed from their mothers and family group and exported from Zimbabwe to China. These elephant babies were sent to two zoos in China, Taiyuan Zoo in northern China and Xinjiang Safari Park in north-west China.
Sadly one baby has already died at Taiyuan Zoo, and the surviving male calf is very sick. The photos and video footage we have seen are very distressing; this baby is physically sick and given his condition and environment, suffering psychological distress. Elephant experts and vets around the world have expressed concern that he is very underweight, his skin is covered in marks and sores and the swelling under his belly needs urgent attention. He is in need of immediate veterinary care, but so far the zoo has refused all offers of help.
Kenya Wildlife Services rangers move confiscated ivory in Nairobi. Two Tanzanian nationals were arrested with 16 pieces of ivory in Kenya’s Ongata Rongai township. Trade in elephant ivory has been outlawed since 1989
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
(Source: Guardian)
Indonesian men puts a chain onto a young pig-tailed macaque as it’s displayed for sale in Padang Pariaman, West Sumatra, Indonesia
Photograph: Rivo Andries/AP
(Source: Guardian)
Zoos are also helping the blue-crowned laughing thrush, whose population numbers less than 250 mature birds in the wild in China. Trapping for the bird trade is a major cause of the species’ recent decline
Photograph: Xie Xiao-fang/BIAZA
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Monkeys are not pets.
There is a massive black market in baby monkey and apes who have been taken from their mothers too young (this one should still be suckling). Some bred in the back of illegal puppy farms to wild caught old parents, usually bred with offspring and others, mostly apes, taken from their mothers dead arms after being shot, with the babies sustaining injuries from this also.
See how it sucks its thumb because it is scared? as a comfort as its mothers not there.
This is ridiculous and wrong and needs to stop.
WILDLIFE ARE NOT PETS.
A pangolin crawls on bags wrapping other pangolins during a news conference on wildlife rescue in Bangkok, Thailand. Thai customs officers rescued 138 endangered pangolins worth about $46,000 that they say were to be sold and eaten outside the country. The animals hidden in a pickup truck were seized at a custom check point in Chumporn province, south of Bangkok, according to the officials
Photograph: Apichart Weerawong/AP
(Source: Guardian)
Trafficking of baby gorillas poses new threat to endangered species
DR Congo authorities say they are powerless to combat trade in which poachers demand up to $40,000 an animal
Named Shamavu after the ranger who rescued him, this baby gorilla was found hidden in a small rucksack during an undercover operation targeting poachers in DR Congo. (Photograph: Luanne Cadd)
