The warning comes in a report prepared by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring programme of IUCN-The World Conservation Union and WWF, the global environment campaign.

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As well, the International Union for Conservation of Nature ( IUCN ) has served as a world-wide biodiversity platform for its many hundreds government and non-government members since it was founded over 60 years ago.

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