Illegal Wildlife Trafficking in Costa Rica Shifts to Social Media Platforms

Wildlife Trafficking in Costa Rica Moves onto Social Media

Currently unknown numbers of wild animals are illegally pulled from Costa Rica’s forests, rivers and coastlines every year, according to the Attorney General’s Office, and the pipeline moving them has increasingly shifted from backwoods trappers to Facebook sellers and encrypted marketplaces. Complaints tracked by the Judicial Investigation Police, known as the OIJ, tell the story […] The post Wildlife Trafficking in Costa Rica Moves onto Social Media appeared first on The Tico Times | Costa ...

By The Tico Times