Rescue me from Facebook!
(WorldNews Environment)

EVERYTHING, from critically endangered crocodiles to rare tortoises, is being sold here. A new study by Traffic (the wildlife trade monitoring network) reveals a flourishing trade in reptiles on Facebook in the Philippines with rapidly growing membership in groups with such unsavoury offerings.. In just three months, researchers recorded 2,245 unique live reptile advertisements with a minimum of 5,082 individual animals posted in 90 Facebook groups. `In only selected groups and in just under a hundred days, we found thousands of individual reptiles (offered for sale). This magnitude of commerce...