Illegal Wildlife Trade Thrives on Facebook, Internet Forums

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By Deutsche WelleSep 30, 2019, 10:15 am120 pts
By Ajit Niranjan The lizards are frantic and the turtles plodding, but both scrabble to escape the perspex containers that hold them. The reptiles, some in small boxes and fetching prices of up to thousands of euros, are on sale at the Terraristika — Europe's largest reptile trade fair and a suspected…

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