ECOLOGY
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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To make money
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To get fur
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To do it for fun
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To trade
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Detailed explanation-1: -More than 38 million animals are pulled from Brazil’s jungles, grasslands, forests and wetlands each year, according to estimates by the Brazilian National Network Against the Trafficking of Wild Animals (RENCTAS)-and that’s not counting tropical fish or invertebrates.
Detailed explanation-2: -By volume and numbers, the largest illegal wildlife trade in the Brazilian Amazon is the smuggling of river turtle eggs, despite international trade in all Amazon river turtles and land tortoises being regulated under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
Detailed explanation-3: -Illegal wildlife trade is driven by high profit margins and, in many cases, the high prices paid for rare species. Vulnerable wild animals are pushed further to the edge of extinction when nature can’t replenish their stocks to keep up with the rate of human consumption.
Detailed explanation-4: -In Brazil most forms of hunting and keeping of wild animals are illegal, although they remain widely practiced and are deeply culturally embedded in many regions.