Prepared By : Shahana Zakariah
Animal trafficking or also
know as animal poaching is
an activities of hunting,
killing or capturing of
protected animals illegally to gain profit.
“Our lives begin to end, starting the day we become silent about animal abuse”
“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than women created for men” - Alice Walker
High demand by people due to its uses in religion, food,
medicine, perfume and etc.
Driver from low-income country get high
income from buying and selling process of
animal trafficking
due to its high market price.
(Messer, 2010)
Society awareness on this issue is still low and even there are some who aware on this issue, only a few of them that show concern and care regarding this matter.
(Fischer, 2004)
Improvement in the transportation and trade links
has smoothing the flow of legal and illegal product. (Phillips, 2012)
Until now even though there is rapid growth of this issue,
the law on animal trafficking in some
country is not too strict.
“Most people would say they love animals, but the reality is, if your using animals for food, clothing, or entertainment, you're only considering the lives of certain animals,
typically those of cats and dogs” - Melisser Elliott
The Uses Make as
Pet
Food Industry
Clothing and Textile
Industry
Medicine Cultural
Item
Household Item
Industrial Resins and
Extracts
Ornamental Value
(TRAFFIC, 2008)
“When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport, when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity” – George Bernard Shaw
This activities will make the animal suffer during the capturing and transporting process. Some of these animal die during the process.
(Inside The Exotic Animal Trade, n.d.)
While some of poached animals that survive in the capturing
and transporting process, they will not have enough care by the caretaker as the caretaker
are unprepared or incapable to provide the needs of poached animals who are far removed from their natural habitats.
(Inside The Exotic Animal Trade, n.d.)
Since most of animal that’s been poached is an endanger species thus these animal
population will eventually disappear from the world.
(Coston, Blevins, Bing, & Lord , n.d.)
“Animals, like us, are living souls. They are not things. They are not objects. Neither are they human. Yet they mourn. They love. They dance. They suffer. They know the peaks and chasms of being” - Gary Kowalski
Animal poaching will not only
effect the animals but it also
effect human. As most of
exotic animal species may
have carried unknown
vectors of human disease.
(Inside The Exotic Animal Trade, n.d.)
There is some people who like to make wild
animal as pet. This might be a bad decision
because when they are adult they will tend to
behaved their natural instinct which is aggressive
and predatory.
(Inside The Exotic Animal Trade, n.d.)
Apart from that, the most greatest effect of
animal trafficking to human is our future
generation will not be able to see or to hold
these endangered animals as these animals
extinct from this world.
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated” – Mahatma Gandhi
It is concluded that, animal trafficking
activities are not only violated the animal’s life and dignity but it also has violated the animal’s right. (Wildlife Watch, 2011)
So, should we keep on blind-folding our self regarding this issue and let those innocent
animal die in cruelty?
THINK AND TAKE
ACTION. TOGETHER WE
CAN STOP ANIMAL
TRAFFICKING!
“Until one has loved animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened” - Anatole France
Wildlife Watch. (2011, August 23). New Straits Times . TRAFFIC. (2008). What’s Driving the Wildlife Trade? A Review of Expert Opinion on Economic and Social Drivers of the Wildlife Trade and Trade Control Efforts in Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR and Vietnam. The East Asia and Pacific Region Sustainable Development Discussion Paper , ix. Phillips, T. (2012, January 3). No End To Illegal Animal Trafficking. Retrieved July 2012, from Global Animal: http://www.globalanimal.org/2012/01/03/no-end-to-illegal-animal-trafficking/62240/ Messer, K. D. (2010). Protecting endangered species: When are shoot-on-sight policies the only viable option to stop poaching? Ecological Economics , 2334. Inside The Exotic Animal Trade. (n.d.). Retrieved July 2012, from People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animal: http://www.peta.org/issues/companion-animals/inside-the-exotic-animal-trade.aspx Fischer, C. (2004). The complex interactions of markets for endangered species products. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 48 , 933. Coston, C. T., Blevins, K. R., Bing, I. R., & Lord, V. B. (n.d.). Illegal Trafficking in Non-Human Animals. The Southwest Journal of Criminal Justice, Vol. 8(2) , 76.
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