‘Status symbols’: Japan emerging as major hub for illegal trade in slow lorises due to their popularity as pets

Mongabay
By <a class="author-link"…Feb 29, 2016, 9:03 am210 pts
In 2014, the Telegraph ranked slow lorises as one of the “top 10 internet superstar pets”. Unfortunately, the rising online popularity of slow lorises (Nycticebus spp.) as exotic pets is fueling the illicit trade in these animals. Japan, for example, is emerging as a major black market for illegally…

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