SCORES of deadly wild animals, including lions, crocodiles and venomous snakes, are being kept as pets by Brits in their ...

The Live-Animal Trade. Every year millions of animals—African grey parrots, marmosets, meerkats, poison dart frogs, pythons, seahorses, whip scorpions—are plucked from the wild and moved ...

The wildlife trade is partly to blame, but any activity that puts people in close proximity to wild animals harboring diseases, for which humans are unlikely to carry immunity, poses a risk.

They provide just a glimpse of the massive trade in endangered animals — and their bones, skins and other organs — that is taking place across Asia.

Of course, if at all possible, an animal rescued from the wildlife trade should be returned to its native habitat. But releasing a trafficked animal is much more complicated than finding an open ...

According to data collected by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the global value of trade in live animals totaled $21.7 billion in 2017, a 141 percent increase over the total ...

Animal trade goes beyond mating pairs, however. Some biological systems can be understood as a marketplace where the concepts of supply and demand from economic theory govern the prices paid for ...

Nonetheless, it is clear that the authorities in China and elsewhere should crack down on the illegal trade of pangolins and other animals. Conservationists have long trumpeted the cruelty of the ...

The EU has created its first law on the welfare of dogs and cats to be applied across the bloc, targeting illegal trade and harmful practices. A regulation that was long overdue, considering that 44% ...

The scale of the live wild animal trade in China is unclear, experts say. Many animals are poached, imported, and exported illegally—for food, medicine, trophies, and pets.