China Takes Steps to Counter Wildlife Trade on the Internet

PNN Online
November 21, 2008

The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and Taobao, China's largest internet auction site, jointly announced a series of online activities to counter illegal wildlife trade on the Internet.

The rise of the Internet is contributing to the rapid growth of illegal trade in wildlife, which is having a devastating effect on animals and ecosystems. Fast, convenient and anonymous, trading of wildlife on the Internet is posing a major challenge to wildlife conservation and law

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