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Legal and Illegal Theriocide of Trafficked Animals Ragnhild Sollund Introduction The focus of this chapter is the fate of animals who are trafficked to Norway and seized at airports or in private homes They are victims of the so-called ‘wildlife trade’ (WLT) that threatens a large number of species and results in unspeakable harm to and loss of animal lives; they are forcibly captured, abducted, trafficked, or killed on the spot, whether it be for the pet trade, trophy hunting, medicinal purposes, collecting, status, or innumerable other exploitations that humans can devise (For more details concerning the WLT see Herrera and Hennessey 2007; Weston and Menon 2009; Wright et al 2001; Santana et al 2008; Gonzales 2003; Guzman et al 2007; Herbig 2010; Sollund 2011, 2013a, 2015b; Wyatt 2009, 2011, 2013; Sollund and Maher 2015; Schneider 2012, in addition to reports made by the NGO, TRAFFIC1) The animals of concern in this chapter are those who have been trafficked alive as part of the pet trade WLT is regulated in the CITES convention The convention has 181 member states Trade is regulated according to a species’ threat of extinction http://www.traffic.org/ Traffic has published a vast amount of reports about WLT, I therefore direct readers to their website rather than list any of these here R Sollund (*) University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway e-mail: ragnhild.sollund@jus.uio.no © The Author(s) 2017 J Maher et al (eds.), The Palgrave International Handbook of Animal Abuse Studies, DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-43183-7_21 453

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