how fashionable is killing off an entire species?

Unregulated skin trades are still causing problems, and pushing animals to extinction.

Will we never learn?
Throughout history we have hunted and skinned countless animals to extinction or near extinction only realizing when it is too late the effects we are having on these animal populations.

We are knowledgeable enough to know the effects our actions have on the environment, and yet we still allow these animals to be hunted and their numbers to be depleted beyond recovery.

The current fad is crocodile skins.

Redorbit.com posted an article that reports one tannery as “processing” up to 20,000 animals per month.

These skins are then shipped off to become handbags or shoes for the rich.

Is this really necessary? Are we actually going to allow a whole species to be demolished before our eyes because someone wants to have a trendy place to hold their lipstick?

It is our responsibility as a people living on this earth to make sure skin trades are regulated.

We cannot turn our heads to these issues just because they are occurring on the other side of the globe.

Eventually the effects of these trades will reach us and as before it will be too late.

Related Links:
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1687899/nigerian_crocs_face_extinction/