Africa: Markets of Death, Part Two - Blood Permits - How Cheating Officials Undermine Wildlife Regulations

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Poachers aren't the only problem when it comes to wildlife trafficking. Also complicit are the very institutions and rules designed to protect animals, and the people that are meant to enforce them. Part two of a three-part series by DON PINNOCK.

In 1973 the United Nations drafted an agreement - the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES) - to protect all non-human living things from cross-border exploitation. If it's judged by that which it seeks to prevent, the agreement is a failure.

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