Trafficking gone wild.

• Position: UPDATES - In Brazil reports National Network Against Wild Animal Trade - Brief article

See "Crimes of (a) Global Nature," September/October 2002, p. 12

The trade in monkeys, parrots, and other wild animals has reached critical proportions in Brazil, according to a report by the National Network Against Wild Animal Trade (RENCTAS). Police confiscated more than 50,000 captured animals in a section of Brazil's Atlantic rain forest in 2005, up from 15,000...