Scandalous! Illegal Wildlife Trade On Amazon, Snapdeal And Quikr

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Be careful the next time you plan to buy something online; you never know what you are actually ordering. It may so happen that you order a teddy bear online and get a real Koala. Shocking right, but this is true, many wildlife traffickers are actually using code words to sell endangered animals and even their body parts on many e-commerce sites operating in the country. These code words are actually making it monitor such illegal sales in India.

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Websites Which Advertised Sale Of Rare Animals And Their Parts

According to the environment minister Mr. Anil Dave – “Several websites are seen advertising sale of rare animals and their parts,” he gave a list of 106 websites which are involved in wildlife trafficking, this list was collated by the WCCB (Wildlife Crime Control Bureau). Prominent names like Amazon, Quikr, Olx, Alibaba, eBay, Youtube, Rediff Shopping, Petsmart and Snapdeal are included among the 106 names.

According to Wildlife SOS – An array of wildlife trophies, which included alligator heads, preserved snakes, seahorses, butterflies, starfish and rare beetles were offered on the website. It didn’t include hunting manuals and devices.

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Code Words Used In Wildlife Trade

Wildlife traffickers are using different code words to carry out their illegal sales. ‘Australian teddy bear’ is the code word being used for selling Koala. Any guesses what is the code word for selling Tiger Skin? Its ‘Dhaariwala Shaddar’ which means striped sheet.

Cyber Crime Specialist Carrying Out Regular Cyber Patrolling

According to Anil Dave many active steps have been prevent these illegal cyber activities. The services of cyber-crime specialists are being taken on contractual basis. These specialists carry out regular cyber patrolling so that all illegal wildlife trade posts and offers can be detected on such portals.

Anil Dave Added that legal action is taken against any suspect post any offer is detected. The details relating to such offers are immediately retrieved and the information related to the suspect is passed on to relevant enforcement agencies.

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Online Trade Portals To Assist WCCB

During the month of May, a meeting was held with the executives of these online trade portals. This meeting was held to discuss the issues pertaining to the online wildlife trade and also sensitise them on this issue. They also educated these representatives on ways in which they could assist the WCCB to weed out such sellers from their websites.

Amazon & Snapdeal Have Better Control On Their Sellers

According to WCCB officials- trade portals like Amazon and Snapdeal have much better control over their sellers than Quikr and Olx.

A wildlife body had recently suspected a very prominent website to be selling wildlife specimens. These specimens included alligator heads and sea horses all such specimens are strictly protected under the country’s laws.

Let’s See What The E-Commerce Websites Have To Say About This Scandal

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Amazon India

A Spokesperson said such products were removed and are no longer available on its India portal. “In May this year, Amazon India took down 296 items in the ‘animal specimen’ category and 104 items under the ‘snares or traps’ category that were listed by third-party sellers, after Wildlife SOS drew our attention to them”, it said. “We have since engaged with the government and provided our utmost support to help monitor the situation. We have also provided information as and when required by various government bodies and will continue to do so.”

eBay India

An official spokesperson from eBay said – eBay “has zero tolerance for wrongdoing and has strict policies in place to stop the sale of products from endangered animals on the site”.

Quikr

The Chief Operating Officer of Quikr Mr. Atul Tewari said that Quikr has a system in place which can filter any wrong or duplicate listings. It can also detect unwanted words which violate its listing policy. He added saying – “If we do come upon a fraudulent listing, we delete it and also block the user from accessing the site,”

Snapdeal

“We work closely with WCCB which has provided an updated list of banned products in June 2016 to facilitate detection of any attempts by sellers to list such products on online marketplaces.”– a spokesperson said.

OLX

“At OLX we take several steps to ensure that protected animals and birds are not put up for sale by the users.”

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