US EditionEndangered species convention proposes new rules for growing exotic pet trade
CITES proposals aim to ban or tighten trade for multiple exotic species due to rising illegal online sales, with reptiles making up 60% of seized animals, a report found.
- A growing exotic pet trade has conservationists calling for tighter regulations to protect wild animals increasingly sold online and popularized on social media.
- Proposals include banning trade of iguanas from the Galapagos Islands, tarantulas from Latin America, and an odd-looking turtle from Africa.
- The report found the live pet trade accounted for a growing piece of the illegal wildlife trade, with reptiles representing about 60% of seized animals.
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Endangered Species Convention Proposes New Rules for Growing Exotic Pet Trade
A growing exotic pet trade has conservationists calling for stronger regulations to protect the reptiles, birds and other animals in the wild that are increasingly showing up for sale on internet marketplaces and becoming popular on social media.
Chicago Tribune
Independent EspañolBy MICHAEL CASEY The growing trade in exotic pets has led conservationists to call for stricter regulations to protect reptiles, birds and other animals in nature that are increasingly being sold on internet markets and become popular on social media. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which lasts two weeks, is held until Friday in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. On Tuesday, several proposals related to p…
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Endangered species convention proposes new rules for growing exotic pet trade
Conservationists are hoping to strengthen regulations at a wildlife trade conference on birds, reptiles and other animals that are seeing their numbers decline due to the exotic pet trade.
The 20th Conference on the Washington Convention on the Protection of Species will vote on the fate of more than 230 species.
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