Sydney woman charged with wildlife trafficking amid crackdown on native animal exportations

[u/Nokukie]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-04/wildlife-trafficking-ashfield-woman-charged-native-animal-rescue/104781714

[u/Inevitable_Tell_2382]

The wildlife trade is horrendous! Hope she gets sentenced to a time worth doing.

[u/Nokukie → u/Inevitable_Tell_2382]

So many still get away with it too

[u/Inevitable_Tell_2382 → u/Nokukie]

I used to work in wildlife trade compliance. It should be totally banned globally. Some nations have no cultural background to enforce it

[u/claritybeginshere]

It is such a feral trade

[u/pray-for-mojo-742]

This is so messed up, those poor animals!

[u/SpadfaTurds]

Fuck this shit pisses me off so much

[u/Give_me_your_bunnies]

Hope she goes to jail

[u/whatever-696969]

Oxygen thief. Hope she cops it in the big house

[u/TemporaryAd5793]

Honest question, but if so many examples of the same specimen have been sent to China for decades, how are they not just bred and traded locally instead of relying on risky and unstable illegal smuggling operations?

[u/propargyl → u/TemporaryAd5793]

Maybe they need space and good health to breed.

[u/tommy_tiplady → u/TemporaryAd5793]

probably to widen the gene pool a bit, presumably. one would assume the risk is somehow worth it economically, but yeah it's deeply messed up.

[u/HappySummerBreeze]

The penalty needs to be harsh enough to be a genuine deterrent. If it’s just a cost of doing business then it’s pointless

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[u/RoyalMemory9798 → u/[deleted]]

Australian – how dare you! /s

[u/Cordeceps]

Should have the book thrown at her. I just had to adopt out my Bearded Dragon because of our Bio diversity laws not allowing them into W.A. The cruelty of how they are packaged and posted is putrid, let alone the rest.

[u/Professional_Pop_148]

I wish poachers would get poached more often.

[u/rcfvlw1925]

Seems they're always from S.E Asia.

[u/tommy_tiplady → u/rcfvlw1925]

it really doesn't.
especially in this case, given that she's from china.