The Great Cover-Up: Substitute Species in Illegal Wildlife Trade
in Wildlife Trade on June 28, 2021 With a yearly value estimated between $7 and $23 billion, the illegal wildlife trade is a lucrative business that can quickly decimate targeted wildlife species. When trade regulations are strengthened for a particular wildlife product while the demand for that product remains high, traffickers are never short on stratagems to defy authorities and circumvent laws to continue meeting demand and selling illegal wildlife parts and products. One of these tricks is to substitute one species for another, often without the buyer realizing that a new species has ...
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