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Between 1998 and 2007, a recent study reports, more than 35 million rare species were exported out of Southeast Asia legally. Of this, at least 30 million were taken from the wild rather than from captive breeding programs.

Vincent Nijman, the conservation biologist who authored the report, argues that curr… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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