Yellow-footed tortoises for sale in a market Nature Picture Library / Alamy Stock Photo
There is a roaring trade in wild meat from the Amazon rainforest in big cities in Brazil, even though it is illegal. The economic value of the wild meat trade is now comparable to the timber trade.
While the trade poses risks to some species, it hasn’t pushed them to a crisis point as it has in parts of Africa and Asia, says Thaís Morcatty at Oxford Brookes University, UK. “We can draw a different story,” she says. “We see a potential for regulating the activity.”…
