EXPERTS from Europe and Latin America will discuss the issue of wildlife trade and trafficking in the North-East this week.
Northumbria University is hosting an event about the legal and illegal trade of both wildlife specimens and products between Mexico and the European Union.
It will be explored using evidence from an investigation by the British Academy Newton Advanced Fellowship.
The research, which measured the impact of wildlife trafficking on humans, animals and the environment, was led by Dr Ines Arroyo Quirozn of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, with support from Dr Tanya Wyatt, at Northumbria University.
Dr Wyatt said: “Legal and illegal wildlife trade is contributing not only to the extinction of species and environmental degradation, but also to instability, violence and unhealthy physical environments for human communities.”
The Legal and Illegal Wildlife Trade between Mexico and the EU event takes place from 1pm to 6pm on Friday.
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