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发帖数: 7349 | 1 Pitiful scenes of cheetah cubs lying emaciated and bewildered highlight one
of the cruellest but least-publicised examples of illegal wildlife
trafficking.
Baby cheetahs are so prized as exotic pets that entire litters are seized
from their mothers when they may only be four to six weeks old.
Each tiny animal can fetch as much as $10,000 on the black market and end up
being paraded on social media by wealthy buyers in Gulf states.
But the trade exacts a terrible toll on a species that claims a superlative
status as the fastest land animal on the planet but which now faces a
serious threat to its survival.
According to the Cheetah Conservation Fund, some 1,200 cheetah cubs are
known to have been trafficked out of Africa over the past 10 years but a
shocking 85% of them died during the journey. |
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