Creative & Critical Thinking Individual Assignment

1. Prepared By : Shahana Zakariah

2. Animal trafficking or also
know as animal poaching is
an activities of hunting,
killing or capturing of
protected animals illegally
to gain profit.

3. “Our lives begin to end, starting the day we become silent about animal abuse”

8. “The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans
any more than women created for men” - Alice Walker

9. High demand by people due
to its uses in religion, food,
medicine, perfume and etc.

10. Driver from low-income
country get high
income from buying
and selling process of
animal trafficking
due to its high
market price.
(Messer, 2010)

11. Society awareness on this issue is
still low and even there are some
who aware on this issue, only a
few of them that show concern
and care regarding this matter.
(Fischer, 2004)

12. Improvement in
the transportation
and trade links
has smoothing
the flow of legal
and illegal
product. (Phillips, 2012)

13. Until now even
though there is rapid
growth of this issue,
the law on animal
trafficking in some
country is not
too strict.

14. “Most people would say they love animals, but the reality is, if your using animals for
food, clothing, or entertainment, you're only considering the lives of certain animals,
typically those of cats and dogs” - Melisser Elliott

15. Cultural
Medicine
Item
Clothing Household
and Textile Item
Industry
Industrial
Food Resins and
Industry Extracts
Make as Ornamental
The Uses
Pet Value
(TRAFFIC, 2008)

18. “When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport, when the tiger wants to
murder him he calls it ferocity” – George Bernard Shaw

19. This activities will make the animal suffer
during the capturing and transporting
process. Some of these animal die during the
process. (Inside The Exotic Animal Trade, n.d.)

20. While some of poached animals
that survive in the capturing
and transporting process, they
will not have enough care by
the caretaker as the caretaker
are unprepared or incapable to
provide the needs of poached
animals who are far removed
from their natural habitats.
(Inside The Exotic Animal Trade, n.d.)

21. Since most of animal that’s been poached is
an endanger species thus these animal
population will eventually disappear from the
world.
(Coston, Blevins, Bing, & Lord , n.d.)

22. “Animals, like us, are living souls. They are not things. They are not objects. Neither are
they human. Yet they mourn. They love. They dance. They suffer. They know the peaks and
chasms of being” - Gary Kowalski

23. Animal poaching will not only
effect the animals but it also
effect human. As most of
exotic animal species may
have carried unknown
vectors of human disease.
(Inside The Exotic Animal Trade, n.d.)

24. There is some people who like to make wild
animal as pet. This might be a bad decision
because when they are adult they will tend to
behaved their natural instinct which is aggressive
and predatory.
(Inside The Exotic Animal Trade, n.d.)

25. Apart from that, the most greatest effect of
animal trafficking to human is our future
generation will not be able to see or to hold
these endangered animals as these animals
extinct from this world.

26. “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are
treated” – Mahatma Gandhi

27. It is concluded that,
animal trafficking
activities are not only
violated the animal’s life
and dignity but it also has
violated the animal’s right.
(Wildlife Watch, 2011)

28. So, should we keep on blind-
folding our self regarding this
issue and let those innocent
animal die in cruelty?
THINK AND TAKE
ACTION. TOGETHER WE
CAN STOP ANIMAL
TRAFFICKING!

29. “Until one has loved animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened” - Anatole France

30. Wildlife Watch. (2011, August 23). New Straits Times .
TRAFFIC. (2008). What’s Driving the Wildlife Trade? A Review of Expert Opinion on
Economic and Social Drivers of the Wildlife Trade and Trade Control Efforts in
Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR and Vietnam. The East Asia and Pacific Region
Sustainable Development Discussion Paper , ix.
Phillips, T. (2012, January 3). No End To Illegal Animal Trafficking. Retrieved July 2012,
from Global Animal: http://www.globalanimal.org/2012/01/03/no-end-to-illegal-
animal-trafficking/62240/
Messer, K. D. (2010). Protecting endangered species: When are shoot-on-sight policies
the only viable option to stop poaching? Ecological Economics , 2334.
Inside The Exotic Animal Trade. (n.d.). Retrieved July 2012, from People For The
Ethical Treatment Of Animal: http://www.peta.org/issues/companion-animals/inside-
the-exotic-animal-trade.aspx
Fischer, C. (2004). The complex interactions of markets for endangered species
products. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 48 , 933.
Coston, C. T., Blevins, K. R., Bing, I. R., & Lord, V. B. (n.d.). Illegal Trafficking in Non-
Human Animals. The Southwest Journal of Criminal Justice, Vol. 8(2) , 76.