Rare animals are being sold via ecommerce marketplaces and online classifieds portals, including prominent players such as Amazon, eBay, Quikr, Olx, Alibaba, YouTube, Snapdeal, Petsmart, Rediff Shopping and others, India's Environment Minister Anil Dave informed the Rajya Sabha yesterday. While we haven't independently verified the veracity of these claims, the list of 106 websites (below) "seen advertising sale of rare animals and their parts" was collated by the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau. In an email, Ebay India has said that their website guidelines prevent the sale of endangered animals: "We possess zero tolerance for wrongdoing and we also have firm policies to control the sale of endangered animals and their body parts. We have appended the guidelines for sellers on our site: http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/wildlife.html#policy which will help guide our users. If any listing violation is found going forward, we shall remove the listing and ban the seller from the place", eBay adds. The minister, in his response to the Rajya Sabha said (doc) that they are monitoring ecommerce websites and sharing details of the suspects with law enforcement agencies: i. Services of Cyber Crime Specialist on Contractual basis is being utilized to carry out regular cyber patrolling to detect any posts and offers over such trade portals on the World Wide Web; ii. On detection of such offers, details are retrieved of the suspect and the information is passed on to relevant enforcement agencies for legal action; iii. A meeting of representatives from online trade portals was convened on 19th May 2016 to discuss issues pertaining…
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