Pick-upau event held for fourteen days in Shopping SP Market, to celebrate the Environment Week and the International Year of Earth, and also launched the second phase of the campaign “Traffic”. The action in partnership with Environmental Police of Sao Paulo, took into the organization tent skins of jaguar and ocelot killed by traffickers and taxidermists animals to awareness the population about this problem.

Telephones for complains and information about trafficking of wild animals were submitted to the population, definition about difference of domestic, exotic and wild animals were some of the topics discussed during the event.

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Trade of Wild Animals
Help us ended with it.

“Estimate that the trafficking of wild animals take every year about 12 millions of animals from our forest, other sources say the actual number is about 38 million”.

You can help stop the trafficking of wild animals...
- do not buy wild animals
- do not buy handicrafts that have parts of wild animals
- report traffickers and illegal animals trade

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What should you do when see someone selling wild animals?
At first, don`t buy, and them report to the authorities. The information of the complainant will always be preserved. You should give the information the clearest possible with the location, date, time etc.

What is the risk of keeping a wild animal in captivity/home?
Every animal, whether wild or domestic, may carry diseases transmissible to humans, known as zoonoses or antropozoonoses. Besides they are potentially defensives, they can bite, scratch, pick when provoked. The animal need be respected with the behavior and physics characteristics he gets, is also good have a supervision of a veterinarian and the people need be aware about the physical hazards, diseased and infection.
Sources: Ibama/ SMA-SP/ Environmental Police/ Pick-upau