Brazilian Amazon Has Lost Millions of Wild Animals to Criminal Networks, Report Finds

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The Brazilian Amazon is hemorrhaging illegally traded wildlife according to a new report released Monday. Each year, thousands of silver-voiced saffron finches and other songbirds, along with rare macaws and parrots, are captured, trafficked and sold as pets. Some are auctioned as future contestants in songbird contests. Others are exported around the globe.

Brazilian Amazon Has Lost Millions of Wild Animals to Criminal Networks, Report Finds

 

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Here is what a friend of mine said about this article, and I agree with the points he was making.

"Aquarium trade, bushmeat, wildlife trafficking, logging and other destruction of habitat... The demands will surely increase unless conservationists can get humanity to vastly reduce consumption of tropical forest "products," and quickly reduce human population growth. Yet, most conservationists are still stuck in the "sustainability" paradigm, where our tools are basically limited to hoped-for environmental regulations and efforts to protect habitat fragments that, in the end, are insufficient to protect and restore Nature."