Traffickers are using social media sites like Facebook to illegally sell and smuggle wildlife throughout Mexico. APphotos Details
MEXICO CITY — A new report suggests that trafficking of wild and endangered species is common in Mexico and occurs largely online, where traffickers contact potential customers on social media like Facebook.
“Through Facebook Messenger, Daniel G.15 — originally from Durango, Mexico — offered a keel-billed toucan for 12,000 pesos and a black howler monkey for 18,000 pesos , with a shipping cost of an extra thousand pesos for each animal,” according to the report. “It is estimated that more than 78,000 parrots are illegally captured each year in Mexico,” the report noted. “Of these, 77% die before reaching the final consumer, which means the trade kills around 60,000 parrots annually.”
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