Trafficking in endangered species is doing well, thank you!

A rhino in the Pilanesberg National Park in South Africa. © REUTERS / Mike Hutchings

By: Anne-Cécile Bras Follow

While scientists are alerting us to the accelerated disappearance of biodiversity, reading The Atlas of the Endangered Species Business that the Robin des Bois Association has just published, published by Arthaud, is chilling.

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Elephants, rhinos, tigers, donkeys, turtles, pangolins, butterflies, fish ... the business of animal extinction spreads its web over the whole earth with an annual turnover estimated at at least 14 billion euros and growing by 4% to 5% per year !!! Until when ?!?

Guests:
- Charlotte Nithart from the Robin des Bois association
- Benoît Doamba, Director of Wildlife and Hunting Resources in Burkina Faso
- Joseph Okouyi Okouyi , executive secretary of the Gabonese National Parks Agency.

► To find out more: the Robin des Bois Association

(Replay of November 15, 2019).

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