00:00Petite fish,
00:02dangerous reptiles
00:03et même des tigres tigres.
00:06Vous savez ce qu'ils ont tous ces animaux en commun ?
00:08Ils sont gardés comme des pets dans l'Europe.
00:12Dans l'Europe, il y a une forte culture hobbyist,
00:15particulièrement pour les reptiles,
00:17les animaux, les amphibiens et l'aquarium.
00:20Le EU, généralement,
00:21a très haute purchasing power.
00:24Il a un single market,
00:25c'est l'un des plus grands single markets
00:27et ce qui equait à une grande demande pour le pet trade.
00:32Online platforms ont aussi fait
00:34cette cross-border sale
00:36dans l'EU et globalement aussi plus facile.
00:39All together,
00:40c'est l'exotique pet trade
00:41une de l'Union des plus grands secteurs de l'EU.
00:44Le problème ?
00:45Not tous les animaux seuls.
00:47Et il peut avoir beaucoup de souffrance.
00:50C'est l'un des plus grands secteurs de l'EU.
00:56Le interest en keeping
00:56exotique pets à la maison
00:57ou en collectant them
00:58a conduit à un grand global trade
01:00dans des milliers de species.
01:02Dans l'EU,
01:03les principaux des pays pour l'égal et l'illégal
01:06des animaux de l'exotique
01:07sont France,
01:09Spain,
01:10Italie,
01:11Nouvelle,
01:11Belgique et Allemagne.
01:14Allemagne, en fait,
01:15a l'un des plus grands markets
01:16pour les reptiles et les amphibiens
01:18dans l'Europe.
01:20Mais l'EU n'est pas juste une destination.
01:22L'un des plus grands airports et les ports
01:24aussi servent
01:25des points clés
01:26pour la trade
01:27qui va de l'Amérique
01:28à l'Asie,
01:30ou de l'Afrique à l'Asie.
01:35La plupart de cette trade
01:36est légale,
01:37mais le trafic de l'économie
01:39représente une grande problème.
01:41Dans certains cas,
01:42les animaux seuls sont pris
01:43de leur habitage
01:44et sont disponibles
01:45à l'économie,
01:46par plane,
01:47ou en shipments
01:48across the globe.
01:50Les specieses
01:51sont souvent
01:51en containers
01:53pour un certain temps
01:54pour un certain temps.
01:55Ils ne sont pas
01:55en water
01:56et ils ne sont pas
01:58dans un peu
01:59de proximité
02:00à l'un des autres.
02:01Donc, il y a un
02:02un haut
02:02de l'économie
02:03pour le transport
02:05de live
02:06specimens.
02:10de l'économie
02:12de l'économie
02:22de l'économie
02:36de l'économie
02:36de l'économie
02:37de l'économie
02:38de l'économie
02:39est-ce que, par exemple,
02:40pour la plupart de l'économie
02:40de l'économie
02:41de l'économie
02:42de l'économie
02:43de l'économie
02:45de l'économie
02:50ont des autres.
02:52Appendix 3
02:53includes species
02:54that are protected
02:55at the level
02:55of a specific country
02:56and for which trade
02:58is permitted,
02:59but it has to be approved
03:00by the country first.
03:02Secondly,
03:03not every exotic fish
03:04or iguana on the market
03:05is seized directly
03:06from its respective
03:07ocean or forest.
03:09Some are also sold
03:10from captive breeding programmes.
03:12But here's the thing.
03:14For a lot of exotic pets,
03:15it's actually difficult
03:16to know whether they were
03:17caught in the wild
03:18or bred in captivity.
03:20CITES permits can be faked
03:22and sometimes animals
03:23that were caught in the wild
03:24get declared
03:25as captivity bred.
03:27And some experts warn
03:28that animals from captivity
03:29are not a solution.
03:31So when we talk
03:32about exotic pets,
03:33usually we talk about
03:34animals that are wild
03:35by nature.
03:36So whether they have been
03:38captured from the wild
03:39or bred in captivity,
03:40inherently they have wild
03:41and they have not evolved
03:43to live in our living rooms
03:46or in our backyards.
03:49Police operations
03:50and customs controls
03:51regularly seize wild animals
03:53across Europe.
03:54The NGO traffic
03:55recorded 3,500 live animals
03:58across thousands of seizures
04:00that were likely destined
04:01for the pet trade
04:02in the EU in 2023.
04:05They make up 28%
04:06of all wildlife seizures.
04:08But enforcement in the EU
04:10is not easy.
04:11The situation with the exotic pet trade
04:13in the EU is messy.
04:14It's a patchwork of regulations,
04:17which means that in some member states,
04:20you can keep certain animals
04:22as a pet and you can breed them
04:23and trade them.
04:24Whereas in a neighboring state,
04:26this is not allowed.
04:27And a good example is
04:28Germany and the Netherlands.
04:30In Germany, you can keep monkeys
04:33and servals and other types of animals.
04:35Whereas in the Netherlands,
04:37this is prohibited.
04:38This not only makes things
04:39more complicated for law enforcement,
04:41but also for citizens.
04:43It's why some organizations like AAP
04:46are calling for an EU-wide positive list.
04:49This tool would inscribe all the species
04:51in which trade is allowed
04:52on a list common to all member states.
04:55Trade in all other species
04:57would automatically be prohibited.
04:59It would be a first step
05:01to better protect exotic wildlife in Europe.
05:04We can sort of look at this,
05:06addressing this in three ways.
05:07One really important point
05:09is kind of clear and harmonized rules across the EU.
05:13Second is really strong enforcement,
05:15especially online,
05:16because online cybercrime has been
05:17boosted significantly over recent years,
05:19especially for the pet trade.
05:21But also increasing efforts
05:24to reduce consumer demand.
05:26That's really important as well.
05:31So while it can be exciting to own rare
05:33or dangerous creatures from far away,
05:35the safest option for humans and animals alike
05:38may be to stick to more local pets.
