{"id":363757,"date":"2025-12-22T14:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/363757\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T14:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:18:08","slug":"out-of-the-wild-uncovering-the-live-animal-trade-in-central-asia-a-focus-on-kazakhstan-kyrgyzstan-and-uzbekistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/363757\/","title":{"rendered":"OUT OF THE WILD: Uncovering the Live Animal Trade in Central Asia &#8211; A focus on Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/out-of-the-wild_uncovering-the-live-animal-trade-in-central-asia-24.400x0-is.jpg\" width=\"400\"\/>Bird Market \u00a9 TRAFFIC<\/p>\n<p>The team carried out 37 market surveys, both online and at physical markets\u00a0across Kazakhstan,\u00a0Kyrgyzstan\u00a0and Uzbekistan, between autumn 2024 and summer 2025, together with visits to breeding facilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The findings highlight Central Asia\u2019s prominence in the global trade of live animals.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Without coordinated and sustained action, the live animal trade in this region will continue to threaten biodiversity and livelihoods.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Summary of findings:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>TRAFFIC recommends that strengthening legal frameworks, improving enforcement and ensuring full traceability of traded live animals are essential steps towards fostering a legal,\u00a0transparent\u00a0and sustainable trade system in the Central Asia region.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bird Market \u00a9 TRAFFIC The team carried out 37 market surveys, both online and at physical markets\u00a0across Kazakhstan,\u00a0Kyrgyzstan\u00a0and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-363757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}