Online Trade of Animal’s Skin Has Raised Elephants Killing In Myanmar
Online Trade of Animal’s Skin Has Raised Elephants Killing In Myanmar: To meet the demands of animal skin traders, killing of animals illegally is not something new. But at the same time this is threatening the survival of certain species. Recently in Myanmar the number of slaughtered elephants found in the country´s forests has increased as per conservationists report.
There is an emerging biggest online market for elephant skin in China and it is being blamed to support poaching intensifies to meet their trade goals.
In China, the tough skin is ground up and used to treat stomach or human skin ailments, or sold as jewelry in the form of red beads and pendants. According to the UK-based charity Elephant Family, the items are increasingly advertised and sold on the internet. Elephant Family claims to have monitored multiple internet forums and interacted with traders to learn more about the supply chain without making any purchases. The traders mentioned about Myanmar and Laos to hunt the elephants.
There is a poaching for elephant’s ivory and the skin trade which does not discriminate between genders and ages in elephants.
“Myanmar is losing too many elephants too fast.”
Some 2,000 wild elephants are thought to be left in Myanmar, the second largest population in the region after Thailand. Last year 59 elephant remains were found in the wild, a jump from four in 2010.
If Myanmar looks on this issue with strict laws for border regions outside central government control there can be a reduction in the global wildlife trafficking trade.
The researchers has also documented the sale of elephant skin powder through China-based traditional medicine and pharmaceutical platforms, though it remains unclear whether African or Asian elephants were used in the goods.
Illegal wildlife trade is also often unsustainable, harming wild populations of animals and plants and pushing endangered species toward extinction. As per UN report, 100 elephants are being slaughtered a day only in Africa by poachers taking part in the illegal ivory trade and if we do not stop the slaughter soon elephants would become extinct by 2020.
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