Acceptability

social media

 

Social media plays a key role in exacerbating the trade by creating new trends through videos or photos. These can create powerful advertisements or marketing tools for people to want to keep exotic pets or purchase certain illegal wildlife products. By indicating a proclivity through comments and shares, social media is an undeniable mediator in the illegal wildlife trade.

One example is the illegal pet trade of Slow Lorises, read more here.