Inflated quotas for captive-bred wildlife in Indonesia may aid traffickers: report

Mongabay
Jul 18, 2017, 7:18 am207 pts
JAKARTA -- Inflated quotas for breeding animals in Indonesia’s commercial conservation facilities appear to be fueling the illegal wildlife trade, according to a new study by TRAFFIC, an NGO. To supply markets at home and abroad, the archipelago country sets per-species quotas for the numbers of both…

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