Since the 1700’s many different animals have been trafficked for food or killed and sold for money. About 30,000 animals per year - three per hour are being driven to extinction (Facts-Wildlife). It’s the fourth illegal trade in the world (10 shocking Facts about how the illegal wildlife trade drives species extinction).
Animal Trafficking first started in the 1700’s in Europe for food. Since 1960 rhino population has gone down 48% from trafficking. Tigar ports was banned in China but most people still continue to hide them and cover them up while there are being ported to their destination. In 2006 elephant poaching goes really high and 120 elephants careers are found at a National Park in Africa. Wildlife trafficking has doubled since 2007. In 2013 around 200 dead pangolins are killed for there skin and sent to China. In 2014 almost 1,215 rhinos were killed by trafficking in South Africa that is one rhino killed …show more content…
Between 35,00-50,00 elephants are trafficked a year. Every fifteen minutes an elephant is killed just for their ivory. Trafficking elephants is illegal in every country in Africa. There are more tigers in people backyards than in the wild.Over one hundred years ago there used to be 100,000 tigers in the world now there are only about 3,200 tigers left and only 7% tigers are at a historical tiger habitat contains and convestations think in a few decades it illegal hunting continuous tigers and over half the animals will be extinct. There are nine tiger species three species are now extinct and two are critically endangered and four are endangered. Tigers in Asia are not for conversation but for parts and to sell and trade for trafficking. Three rhinos are trafficked a day. Almost 28,000 freshwater turtle are traded a day. Over one million Pangolins have been traded in the past ten years. There are less than 900 African Mountain Gorillas still remain from trafficking (60 Tragic Facts about
Animal Trafficking first started in the 1700’s in Europe for food. Since 1960 rhino population has gone down 48% from trafficking. Tigar ports was banned in China but most people still continue to hide them and cover them up while there are being ported to their destination. In 2006 elephant poaching goes really high and 120 elephants careers are found at a National Park in Africa. Wildlife trafficking has doubled since 2007. In 2013 around 200 dead pangolins are killed for there skin and sent to China. In 2014 almost 1,215 rhinos were killed by trafficking in South Africa that is one rhino killed …show more content…
Between 35,00-50,00 elephants are trafficked a year. Every fifteen minutes an elephant is killed just for their ivory. Trafficking elephants is illegal in every country in Africa. There are more tigers in people backyards than in the wild.Over one hundred years ago there used to be 100,000 tigers in the world now there are only about 3,200 tigers left and only 7% tigers are at a historical tiger habitat contains and convestations think in a few decades it illegal hunting continuous tigers and over half the animals will be extinct. There are nine tiger species three species are now extinct and two are critically endangered and four are endangered. Tigers in Asia are not for conversation but for parts and to sell and trade for trafficking. Three rhinos are trafficked a day. Almost 28,000 freshwater turtle are traded a day. Over one million Pangolins have been traded in the past ten years. There are less than 900 African Mountain Gorillas still remain from trafficking (60 Tragic Facts about