AR-News: (Indonesia) Animal trade thrives amid crackdown

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National News March 05, 2004




Animal trade thrives amid crackdown 
Kanis Dursin, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
Despite much-publicized raids on numerous animal markets, the trade of 
protected species continues to flourish across the archipelago, pushing rare animals 
into extinction and threatening the country's biodiversity, the third richest 
in the world.
Attempts to put an end to such practices have so far failed, as eventually 
all operation plans, including those most covert, are always leaked to traders, 
which has raised suspicions that law enforcers are part and parcel of the 
animal trade network. 
"Operation plans always get leaked so animal traders know beforehand about 
raids," said supervisor Willie Smits of Jakarta-based Schmutzer Primate Center, 
stressing that illegal trade had become the biggest cause of extinction for 
many animal species. 



full story:

http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailnational.asp?fileid=20040305.P01&irec=15 
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