Illegal Wildlife Trading

Should illegal wildlife trading be continued in South East Asia?

If you have ever visited Southeast Asia at least once in your life, you will probably remember visiting a zoo or a Safari Park to watch all the tropical animals in a very cheap price. South East Asia has almost 64% of the entire world’s wildlife population. Wildlife use is one of the biggest income South East Asia countries including Thailand get from foreign countries. Wild life is used in various businesses such as Zoos and wildlife exhibitions to even private pet sales in a small portion. However, the reason why South East Asian countries can provide this to tourists in a cheap price is because of how they import wild life illegally from abroad. Dealers, business owners,

Because of the huge amount of illegal wildlife trade that's been going on inside and outside of one’s country. Almost every South East Asia countries government’s spend more money than any other regions on protecting wildlife (WWF Trafficking). At this point, some might argue that illegal wildlife trade can leave a huge impact of loss on the government’s boundaries and tax that innocent citizens are responsible for. Therefore, causes massive economic loss to countries that engage in illegal wildlife trade. While this can be partially true, we should be informed about the bigger benefit on the other side. Illegal wildlife trading can bring more benefits than loss in any country’s economic. A big portion of the poor, who are more than half of the entire population of South East Asia, directly depend on trading wildlife as a way of earning cash because Illegal wildlife trade is the third most valuable commerce behind drugs and technical arms (nature.com.Anjali Nayar). Further more, extreme poor regard wildlife as a means to meet their own needs and often use trade them not only for sale, but also as a good resource of food. Since recently the poor population around South East Asia countries are struggling with growing human populations and unsustainable profit from harvesting crops. And in this case, for many people, wildlife is an important source of

South East Asia has always been together with the nature and with supplements that are found in wildlife. East Asian medicines use parts and derivatives from more than 1000 plant and animal species including tiger bone, bear gall bladder, pangolin scales.. Additionally, many wildlife species are as well collected by museums and private individuals and therefore a huge number of tourists in South east Asia visit to purchase wildlife. Illegal wildlife trade meets both the suppliers and the customers demand in a cheap easy