The Exoctic Pets Market
by Kennedy Devlin
A group of Facebook profiles 12 to be exact have been partaking in the exotic pet trade. Wildlife Watchdog an organization devoted to protecting animals against black market trading uncovers pages from Thailand with over 1,500 animals for sale, including endangered species. Based on their research since 2016 people belonging to such facebook profiles has recently increased. Follow-up research on the same 12 groups showed that at least nine were still active in July this year. The illegal wildlife trade is not new to Thailand. In 2013, Thailand was considered to have the largest unregulated elephant ivory market in the world but it has since instituted new laws to deal with the problem. TRAFFIC (another wildlife monitoring group) said its research found 200 different species offered for sale online and 95 of them were not protected by Thai law because they are not native to the country. With technology increases and 24 hour online excess it makes it easier for innocent animals to be illegally distributed throughout the world, luckily with easy access to apps like facebook it makes it easier to find secret wildlife trade networks, however stopping them has proven to be the hard part.
Questions:
Why do you think Facebook hasn’t stepped in and deleted these accounts?
How come Thai law doesn’t protect animals not native to there, should they protect them?
I think Facebook did not do anything about this bcause those account might have business relationships with them. so it's not convenient for facebook. Berto
ReplyDeleteFacebook was not deleting the accounts because I believe that everyone has an opinion.
ReplyDelete- Noah Wasserman
Most likely the reason Facebook does not take these sites down is because they are not monitoring their sites closely enough. It could be they do not realize that these are exotic animals, which makes them illegal to sell.-Jeffrey
ReplyDeleteI think since Thai doesn't have those animals so they really don't give much care to what's going on. ~Gray Daitch
ReplyDeleteWe need to protect rare species.
ReplyDeleteWe need to protect rare species and bring attention to what these illegal sales are actually having an effect on
ReplyDelete-jo
Facebook is making a mistake by not taking this page because it's painting a bad image of their brand. They need to take action and shut down this page that's causing major harm. -Ashley Herman
ReplyDeleteFacebook isn't going to delete the accounts because everyone has their own opinion on things.
ReplyDeleteI think that facebook knows about this because what social media site doesn't keep a tab on what there users are doing. Jason Williams
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