Killing with Keystrokes

Autor: Fondo Internacional para la Protección de los Animales y su Hábitat (IFAW)

Año: 2008

Fragmento del resumen ejecutivo: The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) has completed its fourth and most comprehensive investigation into the potentially illegal trade in endangered species on the Internet. The investigation spanned three months, involved six one-week snapshot investigations on 183 publicly accessible websites in 11 countries and looked at both the wildlife product and live animal trade in primates, birds, reptiles, big cats, bears, elephants, rhinoceros, sharks, Tibetan antelopes and sturgeon.

In a six-week period, IFAW investigators tracked 7,122 online auctions, advertisements and communiqués offering trade in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) Appendix I listed wildlife, as well as a notable number of Appendix II listed species, for sale both domestically and internationally. This high volume clearly points to an even greater problem given that investigators focused on a limited number of species and only publicly available Web sites.

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