Abstract

MANCERA RODRIGUEZ, Néstor Javier  and  REYES GARCIA, Otto. WILDLIFE TRADE IN COLOMBIA. Rev. Fac. Nac. Agron. Medellín [online]. 2008, vol.61, n.2, pp.4618-4645. ISSN 0304-2847.

This work offers a current view on the activities related to the trade of derived from the wildlife species in Colombia, approaching the topic from the development that has had its productive activity, extractive use, as well as the dynamics of its legal and illegal trade in the country and the development and promotion of sustained productive alternatives. The secondary information of Ministerio de Ambiente, Vivienda y Desarrollo Territorial, Regional Corporations, Urban Environmental Authorities, Instituto Colombiano de Desarrollo Rural - INCODER, Police Authorities, Institutes of Research, Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística, Dirección de Impuestos y Aduanas Nacionales-DIAN, Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo and PROEXPORT and others was analyzed. In Colombia , the trade of wildlife species is mainly the extraction of individual for the illegal trade, that has generated imbalances in the natural populations and has deteriorated the ecosystems dynamics. The legal trade of wildlife is based on the production of a few species mainly the cayman (Cayman crocodilus), the water pig (Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris), near 200 species of ornamental fishes, the black tegu (Tupinambis nigropunctatus), the green iguana (Iguana iguana), the boa constrictor (Boa constrictor), rhinoceros beetles (Dynastes Hercules) and butterflies. In the country, there is not exact information on numbers of individual captured in control operatives of illegal traffic of fauna, and knowledge of the dynamics of this illegal trade does not exist.

Keywords : Wildlife; legal trade; illegal trade; Colombia.

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