Illegal Animal Trafficking Realizing The Problem Animals are one of the most beautiful things that nature has to offer but certain species could go extinct due to illegal animal trafficking. Illegal animal trafficking is becoming more and more of a problem and as time goes on the animals cannot afford for to wait any longer. It is important that we stop these poachers that are hurting and killing our animals for their own personal gain. There are many problems with illegal animal trafficking animal extinction, supporting terrorists, and death. One of the many problems of illegal animal trafficking is the fact that the money gained from poaching these animals are funding terrorist groups. The link between the ivory trade and terrorist groups …show more content…
Its connecting buyers with sellers and raises the demand since the market is bigger. Some of the most endangered animals on the planet are being traded on Facebook so these animals are open for everyone and right in front of people’s faces. The internet is not only a place for the criminals but is helping the organizations that are trying to stop these criminals. They use online data like tips, online ads, email address, license plates, and cell phone numbers to see the big picture and connect the traders and poachers. The people selling online use code words most of the time to go unnoticed for example striped T-shirt is code for tiger skin and ox bone for ivory. There have been major breakthroughs recently in the U.S. 150 people were charged on a federal and state level these people were selling everything from tiger skins to live birds. Many websites like eBay, Google Shopping, and Etsy have partnered up with wildlife organizations to help by getting specific rules placed on their websites so certain animal products will not be sold. The efforts made by these online shopping sites has helped and will continue to help keep the number of endangered animal products as low as possible. Not only is the contraband being sold on the internet but also in live auctions. Most of the business and auctioneers that are selling these animal parts are doing it without even knowing or caring (Nuwer,