Animal Trafficking

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

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