Submitted on Monday 15th October 2018
Published on Tuesday 23rd October 2018
Current status: Closed
Closed: Tuesday 23rd April 2019
Signatures: 152
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Make it illegal for online platforms to allow sales of CITES-protected species
While it's illegal to buy and sell seahorses (dead, alive, whole or in part) within Europe, online platforms flout this law by hosting adverts for their sale. Seahorses could therefore be functionally extinct in 25 - 30 years* (based on 150 million + seahorses per year taken from the sea).
Ref: * figures from SaveourSeahorses
The Seahorse Trust (www.theseahorsetrust.org) has campaigned and highlighted to each online marketplace over the last twelve + months the illegality of sales of CITES-protected seahorses, but is continually ignored. It should be illegal for these adverts to be hosted by online marketplaces.
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