A “PET” tiger, a grey tundra wolf and exotic parrots were some of the animals that online wildlife traders tried to sell to Singaporeans last year.
A new research project by the National University of Singapore (NUS) has thrown a spotlight on dark corners of the country’s online animal marketplace.
It found that 23 local websites carried more than 1,300 new advertisements selling trade-restricted animals and their parts - many of them exotic and possibly illegal - in the second half of last year.
The price-tags on the animals added up to $680,000, and this excluded those ads which featured no prices.
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