A trade ban is looming for two endangered otter species after some 100 countries voted to increase protections following a social-media fuelled craze for acquiring the silky mammals as pets. Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) voted overwhelmingly in Geneva
Geneva - A trade ban is looming for two endangered otter species after some 100 countries voted to increase protections following a social-media fuelled craze for acquiring the silky mammals as pets.
This decline is believed to have accelerated significantly in recent years with a fad in Asia, and Japan in particular, of keeping otters as pets. The votes were to move the two otter species from CITES Appendix II, where international trade must be regulated and monitored for sustainability, to Appendix I, where all international trade is banned.
In a statement, he said he hoped the move would"send an important and timely warning, not least to online and social media audiences, that these are imperilled species and that trade in them is harmful to their welfare and their overall species survival."All Asian otter species have long been listed as vulnerable or endangered after decades of shrinking habitats and illegal trade in their pelts.
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