Denisse Lopez

RWS 1302

October 2, 2017

Literature Review Proposal

Introduction

Illegal animal trade is a big business that threats the overturn decades of conservation gains,

where animals are killed to trafficked animals parts for hundredths of millions of dollars.

Through illegal animal trade, many species are endangered of extinctions. The purpose of this

research is to inform how crucial the biological warfare animal crime affect our ecosystems

because many habitats and species had been extinct.

o Is the Internet a significant conduit for the illegal wildlife trade?

o How can consumer behavior be changed to reduce trade in illegal and unsustainable

wildlife products?

o How have illegal wildlife animal trading impacted globally about disease spreading in the

last 2 years?

o How have illegal wildlife animal trading impacted globally about endangered species and

the important of keeping ecosystem intact in decades?

While endangered species had been increasing, illegal wildlife trade had been considered as the

second-largest crime in the global community in the habitat destruction. The first research, Is the

Internet a significant conduit for the illegal wildlife trade? is asking about how impacting is

technology to the illegal wildlife trade because internet would help identify key internet wildlife

trade markets and determined which species are most affected by the trade. The second question,

How can consumer behavior be changed to reduce trade in illegal and unsustainable wildlife
products? this question is asking if there is any solution to prevent illegal and unsustainable

wildlife products. A solution for this issue could be the stop of hunting and poaching of wildlife

animals because as many animals are taken from their habitats, animals had been in extinction.

Another solution would be the stop of animal marketing as the trafficking of animals part had

arose to hundredths of millions of dollars over decades. How have illegal wildlife animal trading

impacted globally about disease spreading in the last 2 years? this question is asking what impacts

does illegal wildlife trade has to disease spreading, an example of 2 years ago is Zika virus

transmitted by the spread of mosquito of South Africa. Another example is the Black Death, a

bubonic plague spread by infected fleas carried on rats, over 50 million people died. Lastly, How

have illegal wildlife animal trading impacted globally about endangered species and the important

of keeping ecosystem intact in decades? this question is asking for the effects of endangered

species and ecosystem destruction from illegal wildlife trade. Illegal wildlife trade is a crucial to

biologist and evolutionist as many species and even humans have come from evolution, if species

are extinct, many other species will go to extinction from starvation as there is not enough prey,

bacteria will gradually overpopulate, there will not be a balance.