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Wildlife trafficking thrives on Facebook despite pledge to fight illegal trade

Wildlife trafficking thrives on Facebook despite pledge to fight illegal trade


Wildlife trafficking thrives on Facebook despite pledge to fight illegal trade
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In 2018 Facebook, which has more than 2.9 billion monthly users, co-founded the Coalition to End Wildlife Trafficking Online with experts like WWF, which set out to cut the illegal trade by 80% by 2020.

The report calls on Facebook to strengthen and enforce policies to end wildlife trafficking including restricting certain search results and changing their algorithms, as well as cooperating with law enforcement and government agencies to combat online wildlife trafficking.

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