Pet trade;Breeders, pet shops, and puppy mills support overpopulation crisis (too much animals so some are killed) so animals are treated carelessly for money for example in pet co or pet smart where they gas and freeze their sick animals instead of taking them to vet.
Good link for knowledge: https://www.peta.org/issues/companion-animal-issues/pet-trade/
Endangered in pet trade: Binturong, slow loris, Proboscus, Sun bear, Leopard Gibbon Orangutan
We have improved the slow loris trade by 160%
we need 35% more
Slow lorises sold as pets have typically been taken illegally from the wild in Southeast Asia. The illegal pet trade is one of the major threats to the wild population, which is also at risk due to habitat loss and poaching for traditional medicines.
If you come across a video or photo of a pet slow loris on the internet, please know that, while it may appear cute, the animal in the video is suffering and so is the entire species.
Not only does the slow loris pet trade cause unimaginable suffering, it is also the biggest threat to the survival of the species, which is in serious danger of extinction.
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Javanese slow loris is on ICN 25 top endangered primate species
80% of slow lorises die before they reach the market.
Seeker 'This cute animal can kill you' Dec 8 2012 youtube.com 3/20/18
Slow loris has a brachial gland in its arm pits, the brachial gland is venomous so the slow lorises lick it and get it all over its teeth to protect itself. bite can cause anyphilatic shock. Its venom is not venom it is a concentrated form of allergen that causes us to react to cats. The slow loris s the only venomous primate. people dont want to die so they pull out the teeth of the slow loris.
Animalist'The Most Adorable Poisinous Animal' sep 3 2014 youtube.com 3/20/18
The Slow loris is the most rarest primate. Their closest relative is the bush baby. Slow lorises have hive fingers but their index fingers are short and stubby.Slow lorises are nocturnal and do most of their work at night. Slow lorises reproduce from 12 to 18 months and the pregnanc only lasts for 6 months.
Abc News 'Slow Loris: Endangered for Being Cute' Nov16 2012 youtube.com 3/20/18
Knight Alan, online Interview 3/21/18
1) How many slow loris are being sold a week? This is difficult to estimate but in Indonesia it must be many hundreds sold each week and remember Lorises are found all over Asia .
2) How many slow lorises have you saved? We have saved many hundreds of Lorises and continue to fight to stop the trade all together . Our Tickling is torture campaign collected over 500,000 pledges to not watch the tickling videos so may have stopped many thousands of sales indirectly ?
3) How are the slow lorises treated in captivity? They are kept awake in daylight when they are normally nocturnal – they are fed the incorrect food and are kept in small cages which is cruel
4) Do you only focus on slow lories? No we rescue macaques, Orangutans , sloth bears and European brown bear and have just started to rescue Howler monkeys
5) Do you buy the slow lorises from the market and take care of them and then set them free? No we never buy any animal as to do so would reward the seller and perpetuate the trade we try to intercept the trade and stop the smuggling of lorises. We train Police and Customs officers to identify lorises and encourage them to track the smugglers and arrest them. We also reach out to local communities and ask them not to trap and sell Lorises to the markets .
6) What do you do when you find a slow loris without teeth? We take them into our rescue sentre and root canal treat the teeth to stop infection and pain in the Loris. We then retrain the loris to hopefully return it to the wild .
International animal rescue 'Slow loris Rescue' internationalanimalrescue.org 3/23/18
The slow loris in Indonesia is in serious danger of extinction and the greatest threat to its survival is the illegal trade in wildlife. Because of youtube the demand for a slow loris has hightened.The slow lorises' teeth are clipped off by the traders to make them easier to handle, resulting in the death of many of them from blood loss or infection before they are sold. Slow lorises are found throughout Java, Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar, China, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The Javanese Slow loris is called Nycticebus javanicus for long. All Asian lorises are imperiled by the devastating loss of their habitat. Lorises are small to medium-sized primates which range in weight from 103 g to 2100 g.
Best countries 'How the Pet Trade Is Killing off Animal Species' Best Countries.com 3/23/18
On visiting a zoo or pet shop, you may expect that the reptiles and amphibians on show are bred in captivity, but many of these animals may have been imported live. In fact, 92 percent of the 500,000 live animal shipments between 2000-2006 to the United States(that's 1,480,000,000 animals) were for the pet trade, and 69 percent of these originated in Southeast Asia.
United news international ,'Look;rescuedd slow loris gives birth' 6\12\16 www.youtube, 4\2\18
A slow loris gets shot by a air gun on the eye area and back then gives birth and is now expected to live healthily
National Geographic ,'You Can Help End the Illegal Pet Trade' National Geographic.org 4/2/18
March 3 is World Wildlife Day and the theme this year is: “The future of wildlife is in our hands.” One often-overlooked aspect of this is the current crisis of the global illegal trade in wildlife for use as pets. From Peruvian titi monkeys to Central Africa’s African grey parrots to Madagascar’s plowshare tortoises, the illegal global pet trade threatens countless species, sending many hurtling toward extinction.
The illegal and unsustainable emptying out of our forests, skies, and rivers to provide a steady stream of exotic pets is a fact often not widely understood by global consumers. That must change. Just last week, enforcement officers in Jakarta, Indonesia seized some 4,500 turtles destined for the pet trade in China, including 900 critically endangered snake-necked turtles.In the 30 years between 1975-2005, 1.3 million African grey parrots were removed from the continent for the international pet trade and the species is now threatened. Central and West African forests likely lost double that number due to unreported illegal trade and high mortality in capture and transport. Where these birds were once abundant, there is a growing silence.
Smithsonian's National Zoo "Illegal Pet Trade: Help Stop Wildlife Trafficking" 1o/15/16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh8Lbv0Hbek 4/6/18