Wildlife Trade
What is the Illegal Wildlife Trade?
It's a multi-billion dollar black market industry.
What are you supposed to do when you see an influencer with exotic and wild animals?
Ignore the post, don't support it
How is owning an exotic pet harmful?
The animal can harm the owner by lashing out and the diseases the animal can carry.
True or false animals have a choice to go extinct
false
It puts animals at risk of extinction.
What familiar places are animals forced to entertain?
Zoos, circuses, and aquariums all force animals to entertain.
Which exotic animals/pets are popular online?
monkeys and big cats.
True or false the wildlife trade affects 1/3 of all land pieces
false it affects 1/4.
How is the Illegal Wildlife Trade connected with exotic animal ownership?
They traffick these animals and give them to people which is a cause of the issue.
Which animals are mostly used for entertainment?
Lions, elephants, apes, and monkeys
Name an influencer who owns an exotic animal.
Mike Tyson, Paris Hilton, Leonardo DiCaprio.
True or false exotic animals that are pets die earlier than they would in the wild.
True
How much money has the trade produced in the US alone?
15 billion dollars in the us alone.
How does entertaining people harm the animals?
The animals are forced to do unnatural tricks and they are locked in cages.
Name 2 reasons why exotic animals are flaunted on social media.
influencers flaunt the animals for attention and for their own ego.
True or false? The wildlife trade trafficks exotic animals of the same species which puts them at risk of extinction.
True
How many vertebrate species are traded?
7638 species.
What form of habitat abuse are these animals going through in their new "homes"?
The animals are taken out of their natural habitats and forced to live in small cages.
How many households in America own exotic animals?
19.4 million us households and the numbers are rising.
What are some animal species at risk of being extinct?
black rhino and amur leopard