Exploitation of Wild Resources through Wildlife Trade and Trafficking

Abstract

From time immemorial man were used to hunt or kill the wild animals for their food, shelter or defense. But in the modern times this habit of killing is transformed from games to worst trade of the world 'the wildlife trade'. It includes the materials derived from non-domesticated animals or plants usually extracted from their natural environments, living or dead or as a whole or part there off. In spite of so many acts and laws, poaching of charismatic animals like tiger, leopard, Rhino, elephant are not rare in our country as well as in the world. Not only these animals, bear, mongoose, musk deer, Tibetan antelope, crocodile, turtles and tortoises, snakes, monitor lizards, geckos and many others are also sacrificed for their different body parts due to some non-scientific beliefs. The all body parts of tiger, i.e., from bone, skin, nail barbs and fat have a huge market in South-East Asian countries. The developed countries of Europe and America use the wildlife products as fancies. Rhino horn is belived to act as an aphrodisiac but which does not have any scientific proof. Elephant tusk, skin or fur of mammalian species, bear's bile, musk pod, snake venom, reptile skins and many other animal body parts are included in the billion dollars illegal trade. Not only animals, the plants like sandal wood, orchid, medicinal herbs and many more are also included in this illegal trade.