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  • A Sunda slow loris (Nycticebus coucang) or greater slow loris is pictured in the Medan, animal market, Sumatra, Indonesia.The slow loris is targeted by poachers operating in and around the Leuser Ecosystem for the exotic pet trade. Paul Hilton for Earth Tree
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  • Wild animal market, Guangzhou, China. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images
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  • Illegally kept Slow Lorises climb around a cage on the outskirts of Kandang, South Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia. Trade in endangered species is illegal in Indonesia, but prosecutions are rare. As forests are increasingly cut down for palm oil plantations, trafficking in wildlife is growing, according to the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Wild animal market, Guangzhou, China. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images
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  • Wild animal market, Guangzhou, China. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images
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  • Illegally kept Slow Lorises climb around a cage on the outskirts of Kandang, South Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia. Trade in endangered species is illegal in Indonesia, but prosecutions are rare. As forests are increasingly cut down for palm oil plantations, trafficking in wildlife is growing, according to the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Wild animal market, Guangzhou, China. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images
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  • Illegally kept Slow Lorises climb around a cage on the outskirts of Kandang, South Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia. Trade in endangered species is illegal in Indonesia, but prosecutions are rare. As forests are increasingly cut down for palm oil plantations, trafficking in wildlife is growing, according to the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Wild animal market, Guangzhou, China. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images
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  • Bats and snakes are sold in a wildlife market, Indonesia. Tomohon Traditional Market in the hills of North Sulawesi, Indonesia  Photo: Paul Hilton / Earth Tree Images
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  • Wild animal market, Guangzhou, China. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images
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  • Wild animal market, Guangzhou, China. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images
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  • HONG KONG , CHINA : A snake awaits it's fate in a snake restaurant in Sham Shui Po , Hong Kong. Snake soup is said to have many benefits to your health and is best enjoyed in the winter months  but snake traders are in for a bleak season as China's ban on wildlife exports, introduced to curb SARS , threatens to deprive them of their livelihood   Wild animal market, Guangzhou, China. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images
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  • HKG0120030718 HONG KONG , CHINA : Civet cats in filthy cages await their fate at Xin Yuan market, Guangzhou .Civet cats and dozens of other wild animals are soon to be back on mainland restaurant menus, with the lifting of a ban imposed during the Sars outbreak, according to Mainland Forestry Administration.The reason behind the lifting the ban was that the forestry administration believed the animal did not carry the coronavirus believed to cause Sars. Wild animal market, Guangzhou, China. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images
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  • Wild animal market, Guangzhou, China. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images
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  • This undated photograph shows a young Staint Bernard dog for sale at a wholesale market in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. For the first time in China's history, dogs and cats may be off the menu according to a new draft in animal rights legislation. The draft proposed by mainland avocates, 27 Janaury 2010 is suggesting that eating dogs and cats would become a criminal offence carrying a maximum fine of 5,000 Yuan ( HK$5,700) or 15 days detention. EPA/Paul Hilton Wild animal market, Guangzhou, China. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images
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  • Wild animal market, Guangzhou, China. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images
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  • Wild animal market, Guangzhou, China. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images
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  • Wildlife contraband is burnt in Medan, Indonesia. The black market for illegal wildlife trade is considered the biggest threat to many endangered species. Although it is controlled by laws created by member countries of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, illegal trade continues. And many species are now being pushed ever closer to extinction to satisfy huge demand for such things as medicines, collectables, pets and clothing. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree
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  • Wild animal market, Guangzhou, China. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images
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  • Wild animal market, Guangzhou, China. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images
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  • HKG06 20031112 HONG KONG , CHINA : A snake awaits it's fate in a snake restaurant in Sham Shui Po , Hong Kong 12th November 2003. Snake soup is said to have many benefits to your health and is best enjoyed in the winter months  but snake traders are in for a bleak season as China's ban on wildlife exports, introduced to curb SARS , threatens to deprive them of their livelihood . EPA PHOTO/PAUL HILTON Wild animal market, Guangzhou, China. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images
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  • A shop front displays python skins from Indonesia in Hong Kong, China, 08 October 2010. Snakeskin has become the latest must-have and designer labels including Jimmy Choo, Donna Karan, Mulberry, Gucci, Prada, Roberto Cavalli and Yves Saint Laurent have all used it in coats, bags and boots, claiming it is farmed, but according to TRAFFIC, the international wildlife trade monitoring network, python take too long to mature and are too expensive to rear in captivity. EPA/Paul Hilton Wild animal market, Guangzhou, China. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images
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  • This undated photograph shows a young Staint Bernard dog for sale at a wholesale market in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. For the first time in China's history, dogs and cats may be off the menu according to a new draft in animal rights legislation. The draft proposed by mainland avocates, 27 Janaury 2010 is suggesting that eating dogs and cats would become a criminal offence carrying a maximum fine of 5,000 Yuan ( HK$5,700) or 15 days detention. EPA/Paul Hilton Wild animal market, Guangzhou, China. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images
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  • Wild animal market, Guangzhou, China. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images
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  • Wild animal market, Guangzhou, China. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images
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  • HKG04 20040128 HONG KONG , CHINA : A Cormarant on display at Xin Yuan market , Guangzhou . China has announced that three provinces have avian flu H5N1 outbreaks two bordering on Guangdong which borders Hong Kong ,a few days after the first bird flu case among ducks was discovered .EPA/PAUL HILTON /file Wild animal market, Guangzhou, China. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images
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  • A fruitbat hangs in a cage, at a wild animal market in Jakarta, Indonesia. Bats are consumer in many parts of Asia, but carry many viruses, the origins of diseases such as Sars and Ebola can be traced back to these flying mammals, and they have also been implicated in the spread of the new deadly Mers virus. In Africa, the straw-coloured fruit bat (Eidolon helvum), the continent's most widely distributed bat, is known to host different infectious diseases. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images Wild animal market, Guangzhou, China. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images
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  • A fruitbat hangs in a cage, at a wild animal market in Jakarta, Indonesia. Bats are consumer in many parts of Asia, but carry many viruses,  the origins of diseases such as Sars and Ebola can be traced back to these flying mammals, and they have also been implicated in the spread of the new deadly Mers virus. In Africa, the straw-coloured fruit bat (Eidolon helvum), the continent's most widely distributed bat, is known to host different infectious diseases. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images Wild animal market, Guangzhou, China. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images
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  • Wild animal market, Guangzhou, China. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images
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  • Wild animal market, Guangzhou, China. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images
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  • Illegally kept Slow Lorises climb around a cage on the outskirts of Kandang, South Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia. Trade in endangered species is illegal in Indonesia, but prosecutions are rare. As forests are increasingly cut down for palm oil plantations, trafficking in wildlife is growing, according to the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Wild animal market, Guangzhou, China. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images
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  • Tiger skin is destroyed at a police station in Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia after several busts of wildlife crime syndicates that had been operating in and around the Leuser Ecosystem, the last place on earth where tigers, rhinos, elephants, and orangutans still coexist under the same canopy. The syndicates have trade routes, spanning the globe and as illegal palm oil expansion moves into the last remaining blocks of forest allowing poachers easy access to some of the last iconic species. Photo: Paul Hilton Wildlife contraband is burnt in Medan, Indonesia. The black market for illegal wildlife trade is considered the biggest threat to many endangered species. Although it is controlled by laws created by member countries of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, illegal trade continues. And many species are now being pushed ever closer to extinction to satisfy huge demand for such things as medicines, collectables, pets and clothing. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree
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  • The burning of tiger taxidermies and other wildlife contraband at a police station in Banda Aceh. Photo: Paul Hilton Wildlife contraband is burnt in Medan, Indonesia. The black market for illegal wildlife trade is considered the biggest threat to many endangered species. Although it is controlled by laws created by member countries of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, illegal trade continues. And many species are now being pushed ever closer to extinction to satisfy huge demand for such things as medicines, collectables, pets and clothing. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree
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  • Wild animal market, Guangzhou, China. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images
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  • Wild animal market, Guangzhou, China. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images
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  • Manta gills for sale at the market
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  • Piles of elephant tusks burning. More that 100 tonnes of Elephant tusks and Rhino horns were destroyed in Kenya. The tusks alone - from about 8,000 elephants - would be worth more than $105 million on the black market. Conservationists worry that there is a a real threat of elephants becoming extinct in the next 50 years because of poaching bankrolled by the illegal trade in ivory. Photo: Paul Hilton
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  • Manta gills for sale at the market
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  • Tiger skin is destroyed at a police station in Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia after several busts of wildlife crime syndicates that had been operating in and around the Leuser Ecosystem, the last place on earth where tigers, rhinos, elephants, and orangutans still coexist under the same canopy. The syndicates have trade routes, spanning the globe and as illegal palm oil expansion moves into the last remaining blocks of forest allowing poachers easy access to some of the last iconic species. Photo: Paul Hilton Wildlife contraband is burnt in Medan, Indonesia. The black market for illegal wildlife trade is considered the biggest threat to many endangered species. Although it is controlled by laws created by member countries of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, illegal trade continues. And many species are now being pushed ever closer to extinction to satisfy huge demand for such things as medicines, collectables, pets and clothing. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree
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  • Tiger skin is destroyed at a police station in Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia after several busts of wildlife crime syndicates that had been operating in and around the Leuser Ecosystem, the last place on earth where tigers, rhinos, elephants, and orangutans still coexist under the same canopy. The syndicates have trade routes, spanning the globe and as illegal palm oil expansion moves into the last remaining blocks of forest allowing poachers easy access to some of the last iconic species. Photo: Paul Hilton Wildlife contraband is burnt in Medan, Indonesia. The black market for illegal wildlife trade is considered the biggest threat to many endangered species. Although it is controlled by laws created by member countries of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, illegal trade continues. And many species are now being pushed ever closer to extinction to satisfy huge demand for such things as medicines, collectables, pets and clothing. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree
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  • Pangolin scales for sale at a market in Hanoi, Vietnam
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  • Wild animal market, Guangzhou, China. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images
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  • Wild animal market, Guangzhou, China. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images
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  • Civit cats are displayed in a wildlife market in China, during the SARS outbreak. Doctors confirmed the civit cats carry the caronavirus, and  warned the public that consuming these animals, could spread the virus. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a viral respiratory disease of zoonotic origin caused by the SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV). Between November 2002 and July 2003, an outbreak of SARS in southern China caused an eventual 8,098 cases, resulting in 774 deaths reported in 37 countries, with the majority of cases in China (9.6% fatality rate) according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Photo: Paul Hilton / Earth Tree Images
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  • Wildlife contraband is burnt in Medan, Indonesia. The black market for illegal wildlife trade is considered the biggest threat to many endangered species. Although it is controlled by laws created by member countries of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, illegal trade continues. And many species are now being pushed ever closer to extinction to satisfy huge demand for such things as medicines, collectables, pets and clothing. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree
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  • A guard stands by piles of tusks at the burning of more that 100 tonnes of Elephant tusks and Rhino horns in Kenya. The tusks alone - from about 8,000 elephants - would be worth more than $105 million on the black market. Conservationists worry that there is a a real threat of elephants becoming extinct in the next 50 years because of poaching bankrolled by the illegal trade in ivory. Photo: Paul Hilton
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  • Guards in a truck full of elephant tusks awaiting destruction in Kenya. The tusks - from about 8,000 elephants - would be worth more than $105 million on the black market. Conservationists worry that there is a a real threat of elephants becoming extinct in the next 50 years because of poaching bankrolled by the illegal trade in ivory. Photo: Paul Hilton
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  • A guard stands by the burning of more that 100 tonnes of Elephant tusks and Rhino horns in Kenya. The tusks alone - from about 8,000 elephants - would be worth more than $105 million on the black market. Conservationists worry that there is a a real threat of elephants becoming extinct in the next 50 years because of poaching bankrolled by the illegal trade in ivory. Photo: Paul Hilton
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  • Burning of more that 100 tonnes of Elephant tusks and Rhino horns in Kenya. The tusks alone - from about 8,000 elephants - would be worth more than $105 million on the black market. Conservationists worry that there is a a real threat of elephants becoming extinct in the next 50 years because of poaching bankrolled by the illegal trade in ivory. Photo: Paul Hilton
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  • Wildlife contraband is burnt in Medan, Indonesia. The black market for illegal wildlife trade is considered the biggest threat to many endangered species. Although it is controlled by laws created by member countries of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, illegal trade continues. And many species are now being pushed ever closer to extinction to satisfy huge demand for such things as medicines, collectables, pets and clothing. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree
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  • Wildlife contraband is burnt in Medan, Indonesia. The black market for illegal wildlife trade is considered the biggest threat to many endangered species. Although it is controlled by laws created by member countries of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, illegal trade continues. And many species are now being pushed ever closer to extinction to satisfy huge demand for such things as medicines, collectables, pets and clothing. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree
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  • Wildlife contraband is burnt in Medan, Indonesia. The black market for illegal wildlife trade is considered the biggest threat to many endangered species. Although it is controlled by laws created by member countries of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, illegal trade continues. And many species are now being pushed ever closer to extinction to satisfy huge demand for such things as medicines, collectables, pets and clothing. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree
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  • Guard stands by the burning of more that 100 tonnes of Elephant tusks and Rhino horns in Kenya. The tusks alone - from about 8,000 elephants - would be worth more than $105 million on the black market. Conservationists worry that there is a a real threat of elephants becoming extinct in the next 50 years because of poaching bankrolled by the illegal trade in ivory. Photo: Paul Hilton
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  • A pile of tusks awaiting destruction in Kenya. The tusks - from about 8,000 elephants - would be worth more than $105 million on the black market. Conservationists worry that there is a a real threat of elephants becoming extinct in the next 50 years because of poaching bankrolled by the illegal trade in ivory. Photo: Paul Hilton
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  • Pangolin scales for sale at a market in Hanoi, Vietnam
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  • Dried seahorses for sale at the market
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  • Burning of more that 100 tonnes of Elephant tusks and Rhino horns in Kenya. The tusks alone - from about 8,000 elephants - would be worth more than $105 million on the black market. Conservationists worry that there is a a real threat of elephants becoming extinct in the next 50 years because of poaching bankrolled by the illegal trade in ivory. Photo: Paul Hilton
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  • A Sunda slow loris (Nycticebus coucang) or greater slow loris is pictured in the Jakarta, animal market, Java, Indonesia.The slow loris is targeted by poachers operating in and around the Leuser Ecosystem for the exotic pet trade. Paul Hilton for Earth Tree
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  • A guard stands by piles of tusks at the burning of more that 100 tonnes of Elephant tusks and Rhino horns in Kenya. The tusks alone - from about 8,000 elephants - would be worth more than $105 million on the black market. Conservationists worry that there is a a real threat of elephants becoming extinct in the next 50 years because of poaching bankrolled by the illegal trade in ivory. Photo: Paul Hilton
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  • Piles of elephant tusks burning. More that 100 tonnes of Elephant tusks and Rhino horns were destroyed in Kenya. The tusks alone - from about 8,000 elephants - would be worth more than $105 million on the black market. Conservationists worry that there is a a real threat of elephants becoming extinct in the next 50 years because of poaching bankrolled by the illegal trade in ivory. Photo: Paul Hilton
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  • A guard stands by the burning of more that 100 tonnes of Elephant tusks and Rhino horns in Kenya. The tusks alone - from about 8,000 elephants - would be worth more than $105 million on the black market. Conservationists worry that there is a a real threat of elephants becoming extinct in the next 50 years because of poaching bankrolled by the illegal trade in ivory. Photo: Paul Hilton
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  • An activist holds a rhino horn in front of a pile of tusks awaiting destruction in Kenya. The tusks alone - from about 8,000 elephants - would be worth more than $105 million on the black market. Conservationists worry that there is a a real threat of elephants becoming extinct in the next 50 years because of poaching bankrolled by the illegal trade in ivory. Photo: Paul Hilton
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  • Tiger skin at a police station in Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia, before it is destroyed after several busts of wildlife crime syndicates that had been operating in and around the Leuser Ecosystem, the last place on earth where tigers, rhinos, elephants, and orangutans still coexist under the same canopy. The syndicates have trade routes, spanning the globe and as illegal palm oil expansion moves into the last remaining blocks of forest allowing poachers easy access to some of the last iconic species. Photo: Paul Hilton / Earth Tree ( No Archives, no resales, one time use only ) Wildlife contraband is burnt in Medan, Indonesia. The black market for illegal wildlife trade is considered the biggest threat to many endangered species. Although it is controlled by laws created by member countries of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, illegal trade continues. And many species are now being pushed ever closer to extinction to satisfy huge demand for such things as medicines, collectables, pets and clothing. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree
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  • The burning of tiger taxidermies and other wildlife contraband at a police station in Banda Aceh. Photo: Paul Hilton Wildlife contraband is burnt in Medan, Indonesia. The black market for illegal wildlife trade is considered the biggest threat to many endangered species. Although it is controlled by laws created by member countries of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, illegal trade continues. And many species are now being pushed ever closer to extinction to satisfy huge demand for such things as medicines, collectables, pets and clothing. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree
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  • Ivory ornaments and elephant tusks await destruction in Kenya. The tusks alone - from about 8,000 elephants - would be worth more than $105 million on the black market. Conservationists worry that there is a a real threat of elephants becoming extinct in the next 50 years because of poaching bankrolled by the illegal trade in ivory. Photo: Paul Hilton
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  • A guard stands by the burning of more that 100 tonnes of Elephant tusks and Rhino horns in Kenya. The tusks alone - from about 8,000 elephants - would be worth more than $105 million on the black market. Conservationists worry that there is a a real threat of elephants becoming extinct in the next 50 years because of poaching bankrolled by the illegal trade in ivory. Photo: Paul Hilton
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  • Elephant tusks await the burning of more that 100 tonnes of Elephant tusks and Rhino horns in Kenya. The tusks alone - from about 8,000 elephants - would be worth more than $105 million on the black market. Conservationists worry that there is a a real threat of elephants becoming extinct in the next 50 years because of poaching bankrolled by the illegal trade in ivory. Photo: Paul Hilton
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  • A Sunda slow loris (Nycticebus coucang) or greater slow loris is pictured in the Jakarta, animal market, Java, Indonesia.The slow loris is targeted by poachers operating in and around the Leuser Ecosystem for the exotic pet trade. Paul Hilton for Earth Tree
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  • Piles of elephant tusks burning. More that 100 tonnes of Elephant tusks and Rhino horns were destroyed in Kenya. The tusks alone - from about 8,000 elephants - would be worth more than $105 million on the black market. Conservationists worry that there is a a real threat of elephants becoming extinct in the next 50 years because of poaching bankrolled by the illegal trade in ivory. Photo: Paul Hilton
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  • An activist holds a rhino horn in front of a pile of tusks awaiting destruction in Kenya. The tusks alone - from about 8,000 elephants - would be worth more than $105 million on the black market. Conservationists worry that there is a a real threat of elephants becoming extinct in the next 50 years because of poaching bankrolled by the illegal trade in ivory. Photo: Paul Hilton
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  • Pangolin scales for sale at a market in Hanoi, Vietnam. Traditional Chinese medicine is a style of traditional medicine built on a foundation of more than 2,500 years of Chinese medical practice that includes various forms of herbal medicine, acupuncture, massage, exercise , and dietary therapy, but recently also influenced by modern Western medicine. TCM is widely used in Greater China where it has long been the standard system of medicine, but it's recently been highlighted by conservationists as a threat to much of the wildlife across the globe, such as rhino, for it's horn, pangolins for their scales. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree
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  • Ivory ornaments and elephant tusks await destruction in Kenya. The tusks alone - from about 8,000 elephants - would be worth more than $105 million on the black market. Conservationists worry that there is a a real threat of elephants becoming extinct in the next 50 years because of poaching bankrolled by the illegal trade in ivory. Photo: Paul Hilton
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  • A Sunda slow loris (Nycticebus coucang) or greater slow loris is pictured in the Medan, animal market, Sumatra, Indonesia.The slow loris is targeted by poachers operating in and around the Leuser Ecosystem for the exotic pet trade. Paul Hilton for Earth Tree
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  • A Sunda slow loris (Nycticebus coucang) or greater slow loris is pictured in the Jakarta, animal market, Java, Indonesia.The slow loris is targeted by poachers operating in and around the Leuser Ecosystem for the exotic pet trade. Paul Hilton for Earth Tree
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  • Piles of elephant tusks burning. More that 100 tonnes of Elephant tusks and Rhino horns were destroyed in Kenya. The tusks alone - from about 8,000 elephants - would be worth more than $105 million on the black market. Conservationists worry that there is a a real threat of elephants becoming extinct in the next 50 years because of poaching bankrolled by the illegal trade in ivory. Photo: Paul Hilton
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  • An activist holds #worthmorealive sign in front of a pile of tusks awaiting destruction in Kenya. The tusks - from about 8,000 elephants - would be worth more than $105 million on the black market. Conservationists worry that there is a a real threat of elephants becoming extinct in the next 50 years because of poaching bankrolled by the illegal trade in ivory. Photo: Paul Hilton
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  • Burning of more that 100 tonnes of Elephant tusks and Rhino horns in Kenya. The tusks alone - from about 8,000 elephants - would be worth more than $105 million on the black market. Conservationists worry that there is a a real threat of elephants becoming extinct in the next 50 years because of poaching bankrolled by the illegal trade in ivory. Photo: Paul Hilton
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  • An activist holds an elephant tusk in front of a pile of burnt tusks in Kenya. The tusks alone - from about 8,000 elephants - would be worth more than $105 million on the black market. Conservationists worry that there is a a real threat of elephants becoming extinct in the next 50 years because of poaching bankrolled by the illegal trade in ivory. Photo: Paul Hilton
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  • Burning of more that 100 tonnes of Elephant tusks and Rhino horns in Kenya. The tusks alone - from about 8,000 elephants - would be worth more than $105 million on the black market. Conservationists worry that there is a a real threat of elephants becoming extinct in the next 50 years because of poaching bankrolled by the illegal trade in ivory. Photo: Paul Hilton
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  • Burning of more that 100 tonnes of Elephant tusks and Rhino horns in Kenya. The tusks alone - from about 8,000 elephants - would be worth more than $105 million on the black market. Conservationists worry that there is a a real threat of elephants becoming extinct in the next 50 years because of poaching bankrolled by the illegal trade in ivory. Photo: Paul Hilton
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  • A Sunda slow loris (Nycticebus coucang) or greater slow loris is pictured in the Jakarta, animal market, Java, Indonesia.The slow loris is targeted by poachers operating in and around the Leuser Ecosystem for the exotic pet trade. Paul Hilton for Earth Tree
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  • An activist holds an elephant tusk in front of a pile of burnt tusks in Kenya. The tusks alone - from about 8,000 elephants - would be worth more than $105 million on the black market. Conservationists worry that there is a a real threat of elephants becoming extinct in the next 50 years because of poaching bankrolled by the illegal trade in ivory. Photo: Paul Hilton
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  • Ivory ornaments and elephant tusks await destruction in Kenya. The tusks alone - from about 8,000 elephants - would be worth more than $105 million on the black market. Conservationists worry that there is a a real threat of elephants becoming extinct in the next 50 years because of poaching bankrolled by the illegal trade in ivory. Photo: Paul Hilton
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  • People view the burning of more that 100 tonnes of Elephant tusks and Rhino horns in Kenya. The tusks alone - from about 8,000 elephants - would be worth more than $105 million on the black market. Conservationists worry that there is a a real threat of elephants becoming extinct in the next 50 years because of poaching bankrolled by the illegal trade in ivory. Photo: Paul Hilton
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  • The burning of more that 100 tonnes of Elephant tusks and Rhino horns in Kenya. The tusks alone - from about 8,000 elephants - would be worth more than $105 million on the black market. Conservationists worry that there is a a real threat of elephants becoming extinct in the next 50 years because of poaching bankrolled by the illegal trade in ivory. Photo: Paul Hilton
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  • Ivory ornaments and elephant tusks await destruction in Kenya. The tusks alone - from about 8,000 elephants - would be worth more than $105 million on the black market. Conservationists worry that there is a a real threat of elephants becoming extinct in the next 50 years because of poaching bankrolled by the illegal trade in ivory. Photo: Paul Hilton
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  • A Sunda slow loris (Nycticebus coucang) or greater slow loris is pictured in the Jakarta, animal market, Java, Indonesia.The slow loris is targeted by poachers operating in and around the Leuser Ecosystem for the exotic pet trade. Paul Hilton for Earth Tree
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  • This undated photograph shows a young Staint Bernard dog for sale at a wholesale market in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. For the first time in China's history, dogs and cats may be off the menu according to a new draft in animal rights legislation. The draft proposed by mainland avocates, 27 Janaury 2010 is suggesting that eating dogs and cats would become a criminal offence carrying a maximum fine of 5,000 Yuan ( HK$5,700) or 15 days detention. EPA/Paul Hilton Wild animal market, Guangzhou, China. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images
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  • Wild animal market, Guangzhou, China. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images
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  • Wild animal market, Guangzhou, China. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images
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  • Civit cats are displayed in a wildlife market in China, during the SARS outbreak. Doctors confirmed the civit cats carry the caronavirus, and  warned the public that consuming these animals, could spread the virus. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a viral respiratory disease of zoonotic origin caused by the SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV). Between November 2002 and July 2003, an outbreak of SARS in southern China caused an eventual 8,098 cases, resulting in 774 deaths reported in 37 countries, with the majority of cases in China (9.6% fatality rate) according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Photo: Paul Hilton / Earth Tree Images
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  • Men off loading dolphins at the Tanjung Luar fish market in Eastern Lombok, Indonesia. Dolphins and whales are landed on a daily basis at the Tanjung Luar fish market despite laws prohibiting the activity. In May 2011, Agus Apun Budhiman, the director of fish resources at the Ministry of Maritime affairs and Fisheries, denied that dolphins and whales were being targeted after a killer whale was landed in Lamalera, Eastern Indonesia. Photo: Paul Hilton for Earth Tree Images
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  • Civit cats are displayed in a wildlife market in China, during the SARS outbreak. Doctors confirmed the civit cats carry the caronavirus, and  warned the public that consuming these animals, could spread the virus. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a viral respiratory disease of zoonotic origin caused by the SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV). Between November 2002 and July 2003, an outbreak of SARS in southern China caused an eventual 8,098 cases, resulting in 774 deaths reported in 37 countries, with the majority of cases in China (9.6% fatality rate) according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Photo: Paul Hilton / Earth Tree Images
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  • Exotic pet market
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  • A Sunda slow loris (Nycticebus coucang) or greater slow loris is pictured in the Medan, animal market, Sumatra, Indonesia.The slow loris is targeted by poachers operating in and around the Leuser Ecosystem for the exotic pet trade. Paul Hilton for Earth Tree
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  • A poached barn owl at the market
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  • Pangolin scales for sale at a TCM store, Hanoi,  Vietnam. Photo: Paul Hilton for WildAid wildlife trade, wildlife markets, wildlife crime, wildlife market, pangpolins,
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  • Pangolin scales for sale at a TCM store, Hanoi,  Vietnam. Photo: Paul Hilton for WildAid wildlife trade, wildlife markets, wildlife crime, wildlife market, pangpolins,
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  • Snake and pangolin wine for sale at a restaurant catering for exotic meat, Hai Phong Vietnam. Photo: Paul Hilton for WildAid wildlife trade, wildlife markets, wildlife crime, wildlife market, pangpolins,
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  • Critically endangered pangolin on the menu at one of Hanoi's wildlife restaurants, Vietnam. Photo: Paul Hilton for WildAid wildlife trade, wildlife markets, wildlife crime, wildlife market, pangpolins,
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  • Deer and panglonin wine for sale at on of Hai Phong, wild animal restaurants, Vietnam. Photo: Paul Hilton for WildAid wildlife trade, wildlife markets, wildlife crime, wildlife market, pangpolins,
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  • Pangolin scales for sale at a TCM store, Hanoi,  Vietnam. Photo: Paul Hilton for WildAid wildlife trade, wildlife markets, wildlife crime, wildlife market, pangpolins,
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