\n1,294 events with references, along with analyses, 469 iconographic documents, maps\u00a0and historical archives.
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Winter 2020<\/strong>, curfews and lockdowns. Some are poaching for survival or for a bit of money, others by idleness. Zebra meat dries on ropes in the savannah. In the United States, 17-year-old teenagers are poaching deer with the spotlights of their parents’ GMC truck. There are traps everywhere and of all kinds from north to south, east to west, on land and at sea. No wildlife can escape them, from the biggest ones like bears to the smallest ones like Berthe\u2019s mouse lemur. Birds by hundreds of thousands are captured to brighten up the stay-at-home holiday season. The Ganges river dolphins are lynched, people need to unwind.<\/p>\n 469 photos and illustrations: among the most beautiful are the blue sheep (foothills of the Himalayas, India) and the rock ptarmigan in winter and summer uniforms. Among the most surprising, Benozzo Gozzoli’s painting evoking hunting with cheetahs in Italy.<\/p>\n Extracts:<\/strong> South Africa, December 14, 2020. Seizure of 17 rhino horns in a hot water tank supposedly containing chicken-feed. Destination Malaysia.<\/p><\/div>\n Some prices:<\/strong> Some weight:<\/strong> Some tenderness :<\/strong><\/p>\n A baby orangutan taken in by villagers is recovering (Indonesia). \u00a9 Istimewa<\/p><\/div>\n Tribute to Jenny and Jimmy Desmond (Liberia)<\/p>\n Some solidarity:<\/strong> Some sanctions :<\/strong><\/p>\n 2 to 12 years in prison for pangolin scale traffickers, Beijing (China). \u00a9 Beijing Daily<\/p><\/div>\n 8 months in prison for a tarantula trafficker (China). New rumours:<\/strong> Practical advice if you encounter a puma (United States of America) :<\/strong> \u201cOn the Trail\u201c, the defaunation magazine, aims to get out of the drip of daily news and to draw up every three months an organized and analyzed survey of poaching, smuggling and worldwide market of animal species protected by national laws and international conventions. \u201cOn the Trail\u201c also relates ongoing trials and the evolution of regulations and sanctions.
\n“Ivory is one of the only raw materials in West Africa to be subjected to processing before sale.”
\n“Americans are welcome in Pakistan when they pay 82,000 US$ for the privilege of killing a markhor. With the help of at least 12 guides, one of them shot one almost at point blank with a bow, a world first it seems. It is after 8 days of tracking in the mountain and without the help of drones that the feat was accomplished.”
\n“Breeding in China. The post-Covid revolution” p.177.
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\nBaby chimpanzee: 3,000 US$
\nMarmoset: 250 US$
\nPangolin, dead or alive: 4,670 to 20,610 US$. Scales: 271 US$ each, 1,520 US$\/kg, 9,125 US$ \/kg
\nRhinoceros horn: 18,563 US$\/kg
\nMammoth ivory: 170 to 330 US$ \/kg
\nElephant ivory: 2,000 to 2,500 US$\/kg in China
\nTiger: 74,000 US$ eviscerated, 48-72 US$ per bowl of soup
\nLeopard: 7,000 and 13,000 US$ per skin
\nBats: 3 US$\/kg of meat
\nVulture, dead or alive: 60 to 140 US$
\nPeregrine falcon: 10,000 US$
\nHumboldt penguin: 11,600 US$ per pair
\nSea turtle: 15 US$ per egg
\nTotoaba swim bladder: 20,000 US$\/kg
\nShark fins: 100 and 950 US$\/kg
\nSea cucumbers: 1,000 US$ per individual, 1,360 US$\/kg
\nSeahorses: 1720 US$\/kg<\/p>\n
\n26 kg of teeth, 1,979 kg of cartilage and bones, 26.2 tonnes of meat and 62.5 tonnes of shark fins seized during October, November and December 2020.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ALT31-orang-outan-Istimewa_Robindesbois-12.png\")
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\nElephants fill with water a dry well where one of their fellow elephants had fallen before giving way to rescuers (India).<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ALT31-pangolin-Beijing-Daily_Robindesbois-1.png\")
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\n12 months in prison, of which 6 months are suspended, for a trafficker of coral, parrots, sawfish, monitor lizard skins and ivory (The Netherlands).
\n12 and 18 months in prison for trafficking in sea turtles (Mayotte, France).
\n12 months in prison for trafficking in elephant tusks (Benin).
\n32 months in prison for theft from a zoo and attempted selling of endangered birds (United Kingdom).
\nAcquittal of an illegal holder of 31 geckos (France).
\nSix-month suspended prison term, one year probation and obligation to repopulate the river with 5,760 fry for electrofishing (China).
\nA fine equal to 800,000 US$ for a property developer who destroyed a bat habitat (United Kingdom).
\nThree-year suspended prison term and 120 hours of compulsory work for selling sturgeon meat (Russia).
\nTwo years of probation for turtle trafficking (USA).
\n800 US$ fine for keeping reptiles (Brazil).<\/p>\n
\nNile crocodile genitals and sika deer penises and testicles heightens libido and cure tinnitus.
\nBear bile cures Covid.<\/p>\n
\n1 – Anyone who comes across a puma sleeping or relaxing should remain calm and leave the area. If the animal does not see you, walk away.
\n6 – Another way people can be extra cautious if they can listen out for birdsong. They\u2019ll make a warning call. That can expand the way you can observe.<\/p>\n
\nSee also the “Atlas of the Business of Endangered Species”, Robin des Bois, Editions Arthaud, October 2019.<\/p>\n
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