Investigating live animals and wildlife products on the internet

Ukraine

Dr. Andriy-Taras Bashta, Association “Fauna”, Ukraine

Illegal wildlife trade is gaining growth on the internet, as evidenced by the number of websites with ads.

The purpose of this survey is to measure the scale of the trade.

Methodology

This methodology has been developed based on the learning’s of past IFAW investigations.

This survey will focus on Appendix I priority species and elephants.

The survey itself will take place over a period of six weeks with snap shots taking place weekly.

Lots of animals to order

http://www.ua.all.biz/ http://zoo-sad.inforico.com.ua/ http://zoorinok.com.ua/ http://zoozoo.com.ua http://slando.ua http://www.ukrboard.com.ua www.ukrzoo.com.ua http://www.freeads.in.ua http://aukro.ua. http://board.com.ua http://www.uainfo.com http://www.torg.ua http://zoo-bazar.com http://www.admir.ua

Websites

Website

http://www.ua.all.biz/ 7

http://zoo-sad.inforico.com.ua/ 40

http://zoorinok.com.ua/ 133

http://zoozoo.com.ua 122

http://Slando.ua 352

http://www.ukrboard.com.ua 28

www.ukrzoo.com.ua 57

http://www.freeads.in.ua 21

http://aukro.ua. 52

http://board.com.ua 42

http://www.uainfo.com 34

http://www.torg.ua 50

http://zoo-bazar.com 24

http://www.admir.ua 14

Number of advertisements for endangered or threatened species for sale on the internet - 976

Number of ads – 976 Total items for sale - 1042 Overall costs – 14285941 hrn. (952346 Euro) Sellers – 428 (359 – single, 69 – multiple) Number of ads claim to legality – 456 Total number of ads with supporting documents - 32

Birds of prey 15 - 15

Pheasant 128 - 128

Crane 23 - 23

Parrots 295 - 295

Other birds 11 - 11

Elephant - 190 190

Otter - 13 13

Whale - 2 2

Bear 2 - 2

Cat 49 - 49

Primate 217 - 217

Reptiles 25 4 29

Category Live animals Products Totals

Total 766 210 976

Birds of prey2%

Pheasants13%

Cranes2%

Parrots31%

Other birds1%

Bear0%

Primates22%

Reptiles3%

Cats5%

Whale0% Otter

1%Elephant20%

Huge amount of live animals Lots of cats and primates (like orangutan) Some animals extreme rare (eg., bridled nail-

tail wallaby)

• A lot of ivory

+ Increasing of information about existence of documents (incl. CITES)

- + Relative stable species diversity

- ? Increasing of proportion of ads from companies

Trends

- Increasing of number of ivory derivates - Increasing of number of different bird

species (namely – pheasants, penguins, cranes etc.)

- Increasing of species number from App. 1

Thank you for attention!