The Colombian frog farm trying to put animal traffickers out of business
In one of the world’s most biodiverse countries, thousands of animals fall victim to poaching each year. Could captive breeding projects help save some from extinction?
Ivan Lozano believes customers need alternatives to the illegal wildlife trade
Inside Ivan Lozano s secluded facility there are dozens of neatly stacked glass cases, glowing with ultraviolet light and filled with vegetation. These terrariums provide homes for some of Colombia s most endangered frogs.
It s from this small farm near Bogota that Lozano is trying to undermine the wildlife traffickers plundering the country s forests.
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According to a U.S. nonprofit that studies transnational security issues, the coronavirus pandemic hampered both wildlife smugglers ability to transport their products abroad and law enforcement s ability to track them.
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The case could never be more evident than in an estimate by the Center for Advanced Defense Studies for National Geographic, the amount of elephant ivory, rhino horn, and pangolin scales confiscated by authorities in 2020 was much less than in the previous five years (C4ADS).
Decrease in Amount
According to Faith Hornor, a C4ADS program manager who led the study, assessing seizures of these three wildlife items isn t indicative of what s been going on with the illegal wildlife trade in general. Still, it is a strong predictor of intercontinental wildlife trade patterns between Africa and Asia, where those three resources are significant.
United Nations and World Health Organisation chiefs are being warned they must lead radical overhauls of how humans treat animals to prevent future pandemics. On the one-year anniversary of Covid-19 being declared a pandemic, a leading animal-welfare organisation is writing an open letter to those at the highest levels, accusing them and governments of tackling the symptoms but not the root cause of the pandemic. The letter, which is addressed.
Illegal wildlife trade tackled in new federal government trial of world-first X-ray technology
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A three-dimensional X-ray scan detects an Australian lace monitor.
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In a bid to combat the illegal wildlife trade in and out of Australia, the federal government has invested in further developing its world-first 3D X-ray technology to stop criminals profiting at the expense of animals.
Key points:
The illegal wildlife trade in and out of Australia is in the hundreds of millions of dollars every year
The federal government says new X-ray technology to combat the criminal industry is a world first
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+ March 04, 2021 REMEMBER the garbage imported from Canada that were labeled as recyclable plastic but turned out to be mixed waste with hazardous content? It took several years for the waste to be finally returned to Canada after years of negotiations.
Around 100 containers of this recyclable waste were shipped in batches from Canada to the Philippines from 2013 to 2014 by the Canadian company Chronic Plastics Inc. After six years, the remaining 69 containers were shipped back to Canada on May 31, 2019.
But that’s not the end of the story. The process of prosecuting those responsible for the fiasco is still going on. The importers and consignees were charged criminally at the Manila RTC. Some officials of the Bureau of Customs and the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) were also charged.