Wild animals are extremely difficult to look after and never make good pets. For every ONE wild animal captured and sold as a pet it’s estimated that up to FIFTY are killed or die in transit. And 70% of wild pets will die in the first six weeks.
But it's not just the trade in pets that is an issue. And it's not
just the welfare of individuals that is at stake. The illegal trade in
wildlife is a serious conservation problem too. It threatens the very
survival of some of the world's rarest species.
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