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Legal and Illegal Theriocide of Trafficked
Animals
Ragnhild Sollund

Introduction
The focus of this chapter is the fate of animals who are trafficked to Norway
and seized at airports or in private homes. They are victims of the so-called
‘wildlife trade’ (WLT) that threatens a large number of species and results in
unspeakable harm to and loss of animal lives; they are forcibly captured,
abducted, trafficked, or killed on the spot, whether it be for the pet trade,
trophy hunting, medicinal purposes, collecting, status, or innumerable other
exploitations that humans can devise. (For more details concerning the WLT
see Herrera and Hennessey 2007; Weston and Menon 2009; Wright et al.
2001; Santana et al. 2008; Gonzales 2003; Guzman et al. 2007; Herbig
2010; Sollund 2011, 2013a, 2015b; Wyatt 2009, 2011, 2013; Sollund and
Maher 2015; Schneider 2012, in addition to reports made by the NGO,
TRAFFIC1). The animals of concern in this chapter are those who have been
trafficked alive as part of the pet trade.
WLT is regulated in the CITES convention. The convention has 181
member states. Trade is regulated according to a species’ threat of extinction.

1
ffic.org/ Traffic has published a vast amount of reports about WLT, I therefore direct
readers to their website rather than list any of these here.

R. Sollund (*)
University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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