The trade in wildlife, for food, the pet trade and for related products such as animal skins and ivory, is a growing threat to many animal and plant species, in spite of the CITES convention, which is aimed at controlling illegal trade in endangered species.
Bruno D'Amicis / Young Fennec fox (Vulpes zerda) cub, offered for sale to the photographer by the young man who trapped it in the desert. Kebili Region, Tunisia. May 2014. Winner of the World in our Hands category, Wi...
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Bruno D'Amicis / Fennec fox (Vulpes zerda) displayed in the market (souk), of a Tunisian town. This species is adapted to silence and solitude of the desert, this individual that had been caught as an adult showed cle...
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Karl Ammann / Gorilla head (hunted for meat) next to bananas, Cameroon
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Jabruson / Mozambican children with captive Yellow Baboon youngster (Papio cynocephalus). Young animal caught during troop crop raiding. Pemba to Montepuez highway, north-eastern Mozambique, November 2011. Wildl...
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Vivek Menon / Tiger {Panthera tigris} skull and bones taken from illegal trade, India
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Vivek Menon / Tiger skin, skull and bones {Panthera tigris} illegal trade, India
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Pete Oxford / Tiger leg bones and feet with claws together for sale as medicine by Tibetans in a market near Fugong, Yunnan Province, China 2006
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Jen Guyton / Ground pangolin (Smutsia temminckii) foraging for termites, taken during a biodiversity survey in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique.
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Jen Guyton / Park ranger holding a Cape pangolin / Temminck's ground pangolin (Smutsia temminckii), rescued from poachers. This picture was taken shortly before freeing the pangolin. Gorongosa National Park, Moza...
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Neil Aldridge / Dehorned female Southern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) portrait, poaching survivor known as Thandi, Kariega Game Reserve, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, September.
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Bence Mate / Rangers looking at dead White Rhino (Ceratotherium simum) The Rhino was killed accidentally by its mother. The horn was cut by the rangers, to save it from poachers. Mkuze, South Africa
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Inaki Relanzon / Man with taxidermy specimens and ivory tusk confiscated by the Spanish police at Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas Airport in accordance with CITES, stored in a government warehouse, Spain, October 2014.
