15 May 2017 | Earth Island Journal


Hampered by Lack of Resources, Peruvian Officials Struggle to Address Illegal Wildlife Trade

 

We rehashed a story we did before for a Dutch magazine, just because it's such an important story to tell. The animal trafficking in the jungle of Peru, where a few underpayed policemen try to save dying species, fight a trafficking network that has everything they don't. Sometimes even help from the authorities themselves.