大亀絵巻　-リクガメ写真集-

ケヅメリクガメ(2006/8/13～)、ナミビアヒョウモンガメ(2006/9/23～)の成長記録です。カメの故郷であるアフリカのことや、家庭菜園のことも書いています。

アジアの密輸カメレポート

2008/05/05(月)

Bangkok market a hub for illegal international trade in freshwater turtles and tortoises

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 25 April 2008
Thailand is a major hub for the international trade in illegal freshwater turtles and tortoises, finds a new report, Pet freshwater turtle and tortoise trade in Chatuchak Market, Bangkok, Thailand, launched today by TRAFFIC, the wildlife monitoring network, a joint programme of WWF and IUCN.
Surveys of Chatuchak Market (also known as the JJ or Weekend Market) by TRAFFIC investigators found that 25 out of 27 freshwater turtle and tortoise species for sale were non-native, the vast majority of them illegally imported into the country.
“Dealers stated openly that many specimens were smuggled into and out of Thailand,” said Chris R. Shepherd, Senior Programme Officer for TRAFFIC Southeast Asia. “They even offered potential buyers advice on how to smuggle reptiles through customs and onto aeroplanes.”
The most commonly observed species at Chatuchak Market was the Radiated Tortoise (Astrochelys radiata), a species endemic to Madagascar and listed in Appendix I of CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora), meaning that all commercial international trade in wild Radiated Tortoises is prohibited. Of the total of 786 freshwater turtles and tortoises on sale, more than a third, 285, were listed in Appendix I of CITES. Of these, 269 were Radiated Tortoises.
Buyers from other parts of Asia, particularly Japan, Malaysia and Singapore, are known to purchase and smuggle home large numbers of freshwater turtles and tortoises from the dealers in Chatuchak Market for retail in their respective countries.

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TRAFFICがバンコクの市場での淡水カメ、リクガメのペットトレードについてのレポートを発表しました。
リポートには2006-2007に違法に販売されていたカメの種と数がまとめられています。
日本からのバイヤーが毎月買いに来ると、販売業者が言っていたそうです。