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    Around the world, animals are traded on market stands for meat and medicinal products. It’s no secret that many of the species sought after for traditional medicine also happen to be critically endangered. The demand for tiger bone, rhino horn, pangolin scales and bear bile drive a lucrative trade. These animals and many more are big business for illegal poachers. Furthermore, the open-air 'wet markets' that sell these wild animals products, as well as freshly butchered domestic livestock, have become breeding grounds for animal-borne diseases. It was in a wet market that bird flu, SARS and - more recently - coronavirus made the jump from animal to human hosts...

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    Vivek Menon / Tiger skin, skull and bones {Panthera tigris} illegal trade, India
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    Vivek Menon / Tiger skin, skull and bones {Panthera tigris} illegal trade, India
    Gavin Hellier / Looking down over crowded market scene, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, China 2007
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    Gavin Hellier / Looking down over crowded market scene, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, China 2007
    Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals / Small mammals (rodents) tied to cages with string at the Chatuchak Market, Thailand.
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    Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals / Small mammals (rodents) tied to cages with string at the Chatuchak Market, Thailand.
    Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals / Woman at an early-morning 'wet market' or produce market, carves up pig meat for sale in Taipei, Taiwan, January 2019.
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    Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals / Woman at an early-morning 'wet market' or produce market, carves up pig meat for sale in Taipei, Taiwan, January 2019.
    Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals / Roasted dog meat for sale, hanging from hooks. Vietnam.
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    Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals / Roasted dog meat for sale, hanging from hooks. Vietnam.
    Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals / Roasted dog meat for sale, hanging from hooks. Hanoi Market, Vietnam.
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    Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals / Roasted dog meat for sale, hanging from hooks. Hanoi Market, Vietnam.
    Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals / Dead animals cooked and sold for meat, hanging from hooks at the Hanoi Market In Vietnam.
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    Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals / Dead animals cooked and sold for meat, hanging from hooks at the Hanoi Market In Vietnam.
    Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals / Market vendor holding a cobra at Hanoi Market, Vietnam.
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    Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals / Market vendor holding a cobra at Hanoi Market, Vietnam.
    Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals / Market vendor holding live snake at Hanoi Market, Vietnam.
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    Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals / Market vendor holding live snake at Hanoi Market, Vietnam.
    Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals / Young girl with a stuffed leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) at Bac Ha Market, Vietnam.
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    Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals / Young girl with a stuffed leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) at Bac Ha Market, Vietnam.
    Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals / Stuffed leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) at Bac Ha Market, Vietnam.
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    Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals / Stuffed leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) at Bac Ha Market, Vietnam.
    Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Genet (Genetta sp) for sale as bushmeat alongside the road, Sichuan, China
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    Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Genet (Genetta sp) for sale as bushmeat alongside the road, Sichuan, China
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