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Buying bugs and beetles, or shopping for scorpions and snails? Australia's pet trade includes hundreds of spineless species
Shacking up with tarantulas, scorpions, and ants would be a nightmare for most people. But for others, these creepy-crawlies are welcome companions and collectables. Global demand for exotic pets is rising, fuelled by social media and a shift from traditional brick-and-mortar pet stores to online marketplaces. The pet trade now extends beyond well known species such as parrots, reptiles and fish to a wide variety of invertebrates (animals without backbones) – from both land and water.
Buying bugs and beetles, or shopping for scorpions and snails? Australia's pet trade includes hundreds of spineless species
Shacking up with tarantulas, scorpions, and ants would be a nightmare for most people. But for others, these creepy-crawlies are welcome companions and collectables. Global demand for exotic pets is rising, fuelled by social media and a shift from traditional brick-and-mortar pet stores to online marketplaces. The pet trade now extends beyond well known species such as parrots, reptiles and fish to a wide variety of invertebrates (animals without backbones) – from both land and water.
Buying bugs and beetles, or shopping for scorpions and snails? Australia's pet trade includes hundreds of spineless species Original
Shacking up with tarantulas, scorpions, and ants would be a nightmare for most people. But for others, these creepy-crawlies are welcome companions and collectables. Global demand for exotic pets is rising, fuelled by social media and a shift from traditional brick-and-mortar pet stores to online marketplaces. The pet trade now extends beyond well known species such as parrots, reptiles and fish to a wide variety of invertebrates (animals without backbones) – from both land and water.
Untangling the web: Dynamics of Australia's online terrestrial invertebrate trade
Species provenance Using data from GBIF we assessed the occurrences of each species, outside Australia and within Australia (GBIF 2021). If a species had occurrences only within Australia, we assumed the species was native. Species with occurrences only outside Australia, and both within and outside of Australia were further researched (n = 89).
Lickable toads and magic mushrooms: Wildlife traded on the dark web is the kind that gets you high
The internet has made it easier for people to buy and sell a huge variety of wildlife — from orchids, cacti and fungi to thousands of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and fish, as well as insects, corals and other invertebrates. But alongside legal trade in wildlife, there’s a dark twin — illegal trading of wildlife. Endangered birds with very few left in the wild. Horns sawn off shot rhinos. The illegal wildlife trade is a blight.
Lickable toads and magic mushrooms: wildlife traded on the dark web is the kind that gets you high
The internet has made it easier for people to buy and sell a huge variety of wildlife – from orchids, cacti and fungi to thousands of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and fish, as well as insects, corals and other invertebrates. But alongside legal trade in wildlife, there’s a dark twin – illegal trading of wildlife. Endangered birds with very few left in the wild. Horns sawn off shot rhinos. The illegal wildlife trade is a blight.
The dark web trades wildlife, but mostly for use as drugs
1 INTRODUCTION We are amidst a human-driven mass extinction event, where the direct harvesting of wildlife constitutes one of the greatest threats to biodiversity and species survival (IPBES, 2019). The trade in wildlife presents severe conservation, biosecurity and ethical problems (Cardoso et al., 2021; Fukushima et al., 2020; 't Sas-Rolfes et al., 2019).
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