Illegal Wildlife trade practices on Social Media.
                     ILLEGAL 
WILDLIFE TRADE 
PRACTICES ON 
SOCIAL MEDIA
INTRODUCTION
 Social media provides a different view on wildlife 
endangerment, from orchids to otters, from cheetahs 
to chimpanzees. 
Source: www.scmp.com
INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL MEDIA
 As a platform for sales, influence (both negative and 
positive) and the data source, the social media is 
important to traders, consumers, scientists and law 
enforcement.
 Subsequently, this priority was made to become one 
of the top issues of future importance.
Source: oxpeckers.org
SOCIAL MEDIA AS A MARKET 
PLACE
 Social media is a marketplace as well as a medium for 
stimulating or deterring illegal wildlife trade 
behaviour. 
Source: financialtimes.com
ONLINE TRADING OF WILDLIFE
 Two years later the findings have even greater 
significance as the online trading of wildlife continues, 
with the need for proactive action increasing new 
challenges (including COVID-19 shifts).
Source: blog.aci.aero
COMMUNICATION HAS BECOME 
EASY
 The increased use of mobile devices and social media 
helps retailers to directly link to customers and 
communicate with other players via supply chains 24 
hours a day. 
Source: www.iccs.org.uk
HOW THE DEAL HAPPENS?
 Live great ape trafficking, for example, is referred to as 
the 'expansion of the extractive sector' and is 
measured at USD 2.3-18.8 million per annum. 
 Animals are advertised, often via private, encrypted 
messaging platforms, before transport and pricing are 
agreed. 
 Keywords and hashtags are often used to make for 
potential buyers more searchable for ads.
Source: wildaid.org
WHO CONTROL IT?
 The control of illegal wildlife trade activities (including 
advertisement and business practises) was largely left 
to consumers with low response to the household 
network firms. 
Source: www.dw.com
MODERATOR
 For moderators, illegal wildlife trade was not used and 
participants had almost no monitoring tools. 
Source: www.iccs.org.uk
BATTLE AGAINST ILLEGAL 
WILDLIFE TRADING
 In proposing a way forward, scanners emphasised the 
fact that the battle against illegal wildlife trading on 
social communication should be incorporated in wider 
debates on transnational e-government, with 
businesses themselves taking leadership and adding 
rather than ad-hoc reactions.
Source: www.iccs.org.uk
FACEBOOK AS THE BIGGEST 
PLATFORM
 Social media sites such as Facebook are threatened 
and endangered species hotbeds for illegal trafficking. 
Traffickers regularly use Facebook's ease, allowing 
them to quickly access a wide pool of consumers.
Source: www.sustainability-times.com