Online sales of threatened cacti point to the Internet as an open door for illegal trade

Pensoft Editorial Team

Tagged Amazon, biodivdersity, cacti, cactus, CITES, conservation, eBay, illegal trade, Mercado Libre, online cacti, online trade, plant conservationLeave a comment

October 6, 2016

International trade of wildlife on the Internet is highly unregulated and has become a threat for species survival. Threatened cacti are available on websites and shipped across countries without any legal documents to certify their trade is not a menace to population viability in the wild. Is this ignorance or unwillingness to comply with regulations? […]

Thousands of illegally traded wild animals at risk due to gaps in data

Pensoft Editorial Team

Tagged animal confiscation, animal rights, animal welfare, biodiversity, CITES, CITESCoP17, conservation, COP17, Endangered species, illegal wildlife trade, nature conservation, wildlife confiscation, wildlife tradeLeave a comment

October 5, 2016

The fate of over 64,000 live wild animals officially reported to have been confiscated by CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) enforcement agencies between 2010 and 2014 remains untraceable, according to a new report released by the University of Oxford Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) and World Animal […]