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Post by Bozur on Oct 24, 2008 10:47:11 GMT -5
Want a Chimp? Endangered Animals for Sale Online
blog.wired.com — Endangered animals, including chimps, marmosets and leopard cubs, are being bought and sold online, according to a new report. More… (Pets & Animals)
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Want a Chimp? Endangered Animals for Sale Online By Alexis Madrigal EmailOctober 21, 2008 4:11:50 PM / Categories: Environment, Web/Tech
Maybe there really isn't anything that you can't buy online.
Endangered animals, including chimps, marmosets and leopard cubs, are being bought and sold online, according to a new report.
Over six one-week observation periods earlier this year, the International Fund for Animal Welfare found more than 1,400 live, exotic animals being traded online. IFAW data released to Wired.com revealed that most of the advertisements were for birds, but in the United States alone, 13 primates, five big cats and two rhinos were offered.
Barbara Cartwright, who heads up the IFAW's efforts to restrict wildlife trade on the internet, said her organization believes that many online advertisements lead to offline transactions beyond the reach of their tracking.
"If I put up an ad for a chimpanzee, you call me, and then we can talk about what I really have," Cartwright said, describing a possible offline networking scenario between illegal animal traders.
While many animals are legal to trade, endangered species are not. The IFAW's Killing with Keystrokes report found that the internet's global reach has enabled buyers and sellers of rare species — and the products derived from them — to find each other more easily. As is often the case, regulators have been a step behind the marketplace in their efforts to stop illegal activities.
Last night, ahead of the release of the report, eBay instituted a complete ban on the sale of elephant ivory through the auction service. EBay did not cite the report in announcing the ban and did not return solicitations for comment. Nonetheless, the IFAW hailed the action as a victory.
Stamping out the live animal trade could prove more difficult, however, as the number and nature of websites involved in the trade is different. Whereas most of the ivory trade could be directly traced to eBay, live animal trafficking takes place across dozens of American, British and Russian websites, largely forums and classified ad sites.
While the United States had the largest number (1,034) of live animal advertisements, Russia had the most varied list of species including two types of tigers, a crocodile, an ocelot and a bonobo.
Cartwright said that extensive efforts were undertaken to ensure the animals advertised in the IFAW were not hoaxes or scams, but represented an actual animal being sold. blog.wired.com/
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Post by Bozur on Oct 24, 2008 11:04:47 GMT -5
some responses So.....say I wanted to buy some of these exotic animals, where would I look? Not that Im going to try or anything...
Posted by: N/A | Oct 21, 2008 3:01:48 PM
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So...sa I wanted to cook some of these exotic animals, where would I look for a recipe? Not that I'm going to eat something I bought off Ebay...
Posted by: InquiringMinds | Oct 21, 2008 3:28:54 PM
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chimps are evil, and will tear off your balls.
Posted by: ughlee1 | Oct 21, 2008 4:19:32 PM
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Isn't the PETA.org site about that??
"Preparing Endangered Tasty Animals"...
Posted by: ethic | Oct 21, 2008 4:52:40 PM
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man, i'd love a little monkey f**k, he could get stoned with me and s**t..
Posted by: codfish30 | Oct 21, 2008 5:32:51 PM
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Sweet! My dream of owning a gourmet pizza place that only serves endangered animals as toppings is one step closer to reality!
Posted by: pdxdude | Oct 21, 2008 6:08:43 PM
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wow i didn't realize what a bunch of aholes wired readers were until i read the comments on here. i'd rather run into a chimp in the forest than the likes of you posters.
Posted by: erin | Oct 21, 2008 6:22:41 PM
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erin,
it's called sarcasm (a subset of humor)...
you should develop a sense of humor - or like they say, "joke em if they cant take a F***"...
Posted by: ethic | Oct 21, 2008 6:52:12 PM
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who wouldn't want to buy an exotic animal? i sure as f**k know i want more than one (penguin, polar bear cub(which remains a cub, forever), basically most dangerous animals that are genetically altered and do not grow past the cub stage. chimps are scary, f**k chimps. unless theyre trained to be my servant, in that case it would be cool i guess.
Posted by: alex | Oct 21, 2008 11:05:06 PM
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your a palin in the ass
Posted by: bill | Oct 22, 2008 4:52:55 AM
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i would buy some dragons and maybe that russian ocelot. also a stellar's sea cow and i'd have it fight some galapagos tortoises that i have for sale. but the winner would then be turned in erectile dysfunction "cures" in the asian country of your choice. (either way they're all retarded for believing it works). and the loser would be sold for parts
Posted by: josh | Oct 22, 2008 8:02:19 AM
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This is nothing new! Subscribe to the Animal Finders Guide and you'll soon figure out that tigers are worth about $200.00 - even white ones. Here's an inside scoop on the nefarious "exotic animal industry". This didn't exist prior to about 1972, when zoos realized they needed a place to discard their excess animals. A tiger fetched anywhere from 10-50 grand so criminal began exploiting the unregulated "industry". In 2001/2002, citizens in SE Minnesota found a corporate cascade, a pyramid scheme, built up around exotic animals: "sanctuaries, research facilities, zoos...." This ugly thing had headquarters in Washington, DC (in shared space with some Abramoff pals) and sister organizations in Johannisburg, SA and Guam. Can you say $$$$ laundering capabilities to the nth degree?! This was reported, but as it turns out, the federal government had set this up as a way to launder proceeds from cocaine/weapons sales because the public has so little real knowledge of the lax regulations and the real status of animals like tigers. (They breed like housecats in captivity - we kill 2.5 million housecats per year in shelters.)
The data, with the map and it's links to organized crime, terrorist networks, and rogue CIA ops ala Ollie North - now handled by Colonel Terry Markham, is being covered up by the Minnesota DOJ.
Do the animals a favor. Do NOT visit any "sanctuaries" that breed or display baby anythings.
As for what someone would want with a rhino. Money, money, money....one can disappear and no one in the USDA or USFWS would bat an eye because no one pays attention to the paperwork. Heck, in the USDA and USFWS, they don't know how to look at the paperwork. I speak from experience.
Posted by: Mary Hartman | Oct 22, 2008 2:20:19 PM
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You wanna eat exotic animal meat? Try Czimers in Chicago, I'm sure they ship. They got busted for selling tiger meat as lion meat and then some animal rights nut burned the place down....but I'm sure they rebuilt.
Watch out for the chimps. They really do fling poo and many of those available on the market were research monkeys: AIDS, ebola.....
For those interested in something really exotic, make friends with an exotic animal owner. Lots of sociopath's, anti-social personality disorders, bi-polar, schizophrenics and folks with attachment disorders so they become "collectors" - the crazy cat lady who gets about a hundred kitties, lets them die of starvation and disease while "loving" them and stuffs them into the heat ducts in her home because she can't bear to be detached. It doesn't get any more exotic than that.
Posted by: Mary Hartman | Oct 22, 2008 2:29:25 PM
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Zoo and Aquarium Visitor .
www.zandavisitor.com .
Great place for zoo and aquarium visitors.
Posted by: rudy | Oct 22, 2008 2:50:19 PM
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LOL, Leave it up to the good ole Internet!
Jiff www.online-privacy.cz.tc
Posted by: John Jones | Oct 23, 2008 5:24:08 AM
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Hmm...interesting how you can buy chimps online, but not aardvarks and water buffalo. Why make these animals feel inferior? Aardvarks and water buffalo are perfectly good, too. They actually have places in our society. Where would we have been in the Ant Crisis of 1737 without our friends, the aardvarks? And water buffalo do our dry cleaning! Businessmen would no longer have neat, pressed suits. Excuse me, Ebay, but I think you should sell all animals online. They deserve a chance to become something. Not only bushmeat can be sold. Fellow SFNWKAWWTBSIL (Supporters For Not Well Known Animals Who Want To Become Something In Life) should unite against this terrible crime. DOWN WITH EBAY!!!
Posted by: meep | Oct 23, 2008 8:39:59 PM
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