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Wildlife TraĜcking Landscape in India
The illicit wildlife trade in India is a Sheva and porous land borders with
complex, multi-layered network Myanmar and Nepal. Within the
involving the exploitation of endemic country, railways, buses, and road
species, the domestic trade of reptiles transport serve as key channels for
and birds, and the cross-border internal movement. Over time, cities
smuggling of exotic animals. Traffick- such as Kolkata, Chennai, Mumbai,
ers make use of multiple transit and Guwahati have emerged as
points, airports such as Chennai, Kol- major trafficking hubs, linking
kata, Mumbai, and Bengaluru; sea- domestic markets with international
ports like Chennai and JNPA, Nhava smuggling routes.
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