An excerpt from a note by Sheena Ansari, the head of Iran's Environmental Protection Organization, wrote in the Iran newspaper
Twenty-five percent of the animal species that are advertised for sale in Iran are endangered species.
Twenty-five percent of the animal species that are advertised for sale in Iran are endangered species.
Keeping wild animals in homes has increased in recent years. Although there are no clear statistics on this phenomenon, evidence shows that all kinds of wild animals are offered as pets in cyberspace or in unauthorized markets, from lion cubs to pythons, salamanders, Persian squirrels, Rhesus monkeys, types of birds such as hawks, seafars, houbara and balaban, types of hawks, types of invertebrates, types of reptiles such as native and non-native turtles, types of snakes, etc Iguanas are among the most wild species that are illegally traded and kept.
The sale of all animal species is illegal in Iran, but still a quarter of the advertisements for the sale of animals in Iran are related to species that are listed in the International Convention on Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) as prohibited species in international trade.
