{"id":149456,"date":"2019-05-06T11:41:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T10:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/universo\/?p=149456"},"modified":"2019-05-06T11:41:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T10:41:06","slug":"la-imparable-degradacion-ambiental-a-nivel-global-que-causan-los-dragones-asiaticos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/universo\/2019\/05\/06\/149456","title":{"rendered":"La imparable degradaci\u00f3n ambiental a nivel global que causan los dragones asi\u00e1ticos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Imparable degradaci\u00f3n ambiental de los dragones asi\u00e1ticios<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Imperio Chino<\/span><\/a> y los dragones asi\u00e1ticos<\/span><\/a>, aunque tambi\u00e9n en parte Jap\u00f3n, y sin olvidarnos de la India, \u00a0poseen una mentalidad y un modo de proceder que nos resulta extra\u00f1o en el mundo occidental. La globalizaci\u00f3n de la econom\u00eda<\/span><\/a>, as\u00ed como la dram\u00e1tica y bien conocida deslocalizaci\u00f3n industrial<\/span><\/a>, han cambiado los h\u00e1bitos de miles de millones de sus habitantes<\/strong><\/span>, acarreando un auge econ\u00f3mico sin precedentes. Sin embargo la mayor parte de aquellos moradores siguen pasando tanto o m\u00e1s penurias que antes, al sufrir la tiran\u00eda de la dictadura financiara, trabajando en condiciones insalubres, polucionando y envenenando su atm\u00f3sfera, tierras y aguas, sin pr\u00e1cticamente control alguno<\/strong>. Eso s\u00ed,<\/span> unas cuantas decenas o pocos centenares de millones de personas han logrado disparar sus econom\u00edas dom\u00e9sticas\/industriales, convirti\u00e9ndose en consumidores de muchos bienes que son patrimonio de todos los ciudadanos del Planeta e incluso atentando contra la soberan\u00eda alimentaria de numerosos pa\u00edses<\/strong><\/span>, por el ya consabido acaparamiento de Tierras<\/span><\/a>. Por ejemplo, hasta Francia y Australia, temen ahora a China, por querer comprar tierras de sus pa\u00edses con vistas a la producci\u00f3n de algunos alimentos que ellos necesitan. La frase de \u201cun pa\u00eds: dos sistemas<\/span><\/a>\u201d siempre se me antoj\u00f3 que consist\u00eda \u201cjugar con ventaja\u201d, si bien fueron los gobiernos occidentales los que lo permitieron, para el mal de sus propios conciudadanos y el beneficio de esas depredadoras multinacionales<\/strong><\/span>, que son tan peligrosas como los argumentos que vamos a exponer hoy. \u00a0Vaya por delante que en esta bit\u00e1cora somos antirracistas y anti-xen\u00f3fobos. Tan solo nos limitamos a exponer los hechos m\u00e1s relevantes que nos llegan por los medios de comunicaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Todos sabemos que la des-gobernanza mundial anida entre nosotros. No vamos a echar las culpas de nuestros males a nadie en concreto<\/strong><\/span>, mediante una zafia ret\u00f3rica geopol\u00edtica y xen\u00f3foba. Sin embargo, tampoco podemos omitir que las pr\u00e1cticas depredadoras de los Estados asi\u00e1ticos mentados y alg\u00fan otro<\/strong><\/span>, \u00a0al traspasar sus fronteras y globalizarse, se encuentran infringiendo un grave da\u00f1o a la biosfera, geosfera, y moradores de otras partes de este Planeta ya de por si muy degradado<\/strong><\/span>. El problema estriba en que si de hecho el neoliberalismo econ\u00f3mico<\/span><\/a> est\u00e1 causando estragos por v\u00edas consideradas \u00bflegales?, la acci\u00f3n de los gobiernos\/pol\u00edticos\/ciudadanos, de las emergentes econom\u00edas asi\u00e1ticas lo hacen ilegalmente y con un descontrol desenfrenado que parece crecer exponencialmente<\/strong><\/span>. \u00a0Mi PC cuenta con una carpeta en la que guardo todas las tropel\u00edas ambientales que ofrece la prensa en espa\u00f1ol e ingl\u00e9s. Pues bien, en un muestreo que acabo de realizar, los causantes de tanto desm\u00e1n pertenecen en m\u00e1s de un 75% a los Estados mentados.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Sus pr\u00e1cticas depredadores, son de lo m\u00e1s variadas y variopintas<\/strong><\/span>, por lo que nos ocuparemos de exponer tan solo algunas que afectan a la biosfera y su degradaci\u00f3n, como tambi\u00e9n a la soberan\u00eda alimentaria. \u00a0Reitero una vez m\u00e1s, que los occidentales no somos quien para sentirnos orgullosos de nuestras acciones, ni en el pasado ni en el presente. No obstante, lo que ocurre en nuestros tiempos tiene que acabar o acabar\u00e1 con todos nosotros.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>E<\/span>l acaparamiento de Tierras es realizado por orientales y occidentales<\/span><\/strong>, siendo t<\/span>errible en \u00c1frica aunque tambi\u00e9n afecta a Latinoam\u00e9rica, as\u00ed como<\/span><\/strong> alg\u00fan que otro pa\u00eds\u2026. \u00bfsubdesarrollado?: \u00bfPues s\u00ed!, pero tambi\u00e9n lo intentan en Francia, Australia, Canad\u00e1, etc.\u2026. \u201cPol intentalo que no quele<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u00a0La pesquer\u00eda legal<\/span><\/a> ya ha causado terribles estragos en los caladeros<\/span><\/strong> (recordemos que los paisanos de Jap\u00f3n y Espa\u00f1a son los que m\u00e1s pescado consumen), habi\u00e9ndose tomado ser\u00e1s medidas proteccionistas. \u00a0Empero los Chinos con su pesca ilegal parecen no entender las leyes occidentales, ni les importa<\/strong><\/span>, por lo que campan a sus anchas utilizando todo tipo de estratagemas. Actualmente, los expertos desconocen el n\u00famero de embarcaciones y millones de toneladas de pescado que extraen de los oc\u00e9anos en el mundo ilegalmente. Yo personalmente he visto pesqueros Chinos tan cercanos a las costas del Pac\u00edfico Latinoamericano, como para lanzarles piedras (lean esta nota de la BBC: \u201cLa enorme operaci\u00f3n ilegal de barcos pesqueros de China en aguas de Am\u00e9rica Latina<\/span><\/a>\u201d).<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>La<\/span> medicina China<\/span><\/a><\/strong>, en mi opini\u00f3n tan digna de respecto como cualquier otra (por mucho que en occidente los cient\u00edficos la desprecien sin estudiarla debidamente), est\u00e1 causando que diversas especies se encuentren en peligro de extinci\u00f3n, ya sean vegetales o animales<\/strong><\/span>. De hecho, la caza ilegal<\/span><\/a>, ya sea con fines terap\u00e9uticos u otros, se encuentra diezmando y casi aniquilando a taxones en peligro de extinci\u00f3n. Ellos (y sus asociados cazadores furtivos<\/span><\/a>) \u00a0no tienen reparos, introduci\u00e9ndose en las reservas naturales protegidas de \u00c1frica<\/span><\/a> y Asia, como si fueran sus propios cotos de caza, aunque luego respetan los suyos<\/span><\/a>. El problema estriba en que anta\u00f1o ciertos productos tan solo eran asequibles para una minor\u00eda escasa y \u00a0poderosa. Pero conforme ha mejorado para algunos pocos (\u00bfmuchos millones o algunos cientos?) asi\u00e1ticos la calidad de vida, tal demanda de productos medicinales se ha disparado hasta la incredulidad<\/strong><\/span>. No debemos olvidar que entre los recientes fan\u00e1ticos de la gal\u00e9nica China se encuentran tambi\u00e9n un buen n\u00famero de occidentales. Y como bot\u00f3n de muestra les recomiendo<\/strong><\/span> que lean esta rese\u00f1a de el Diario El pa\u00eds (Ranas Secas<\/span><\/a>) ya que les dejar\u00e1 sin aliento<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Sin embargo, como en aquellos pa\u00edses aumenta el consumo de productos for\u00e1neos, pero lo de la limpieza ambiental, \u00a0a\u00fan no ha llegado, si exportan todo tipo de contaminantes v\u00eda a\u00e9rea y acu\u00e1tica, poniendo en riesgo las<\/span><\/strong> pesquer\u00edas de los pa\u00edses colindantes<\/strong><\/span>, aunque esta vez por envenenamiento. Del mismo modo, \u00a0exportan alimentos<\/span> <\/strong>sanamente enriquecidos en t\u00f3xicos<\/span><\/a>, hasta el punto que en<\/span><\/strong> muchas tiendas de Jap\u00f3n, tienen que anunciar en los escaparates que no son de procedencia China, ya que en caso contrario los consumidores salen corriendo a comprarse una hamburguesa de pescado tipo McDonald. \u00a0Eso s\u00ed, luego proh\u00edben los de Jap\u00f3n<\/span><\/a> por ser presuntamente radioactivos. \u00a0Y no digo que puedan llevar raz\u00f3n pero \u00e9sta \u00faltima debiera ser bidireccional.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00bf<\/span>Y que hablar de algunos de los componentes esenciales de la tecnolog\u00eda moderna?<\/span>.<\/strong> Lean Ustedes este art\u00edculo del Rotativo \u201cEL Confidencial\u201d que lleva por t\u00edtulo: \u00a1China monopoliza todas las ‘tierras raras’, esenciales para la tecnolog\u00eda<\/span><\/a>!, y en cuyo subt\u00edtulo se a\u00f1ade:<\/span> \u201c<\/span>Los metales conocidos como ‘tierras raras’ est\u00e1n en todos los dispositivos electr\u00f3nicos. China tiene el monopolio de su producci\u00f3n y sabe c\u00f3mo jugar sucio<\/span><\/em><\/strong>\u201d. Tambi\u00e9n entre otras pr\u00e1cticas China compra explotaciones mineras en otras regiones del mundo para reforzar el monopolio, es decir sortear la libre competencia que dicen abrazar.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Y os dejo con varias notas de prensa que abundan a\u00fan m\u00e1s en el tema<\/strong><\/span>. Por en\u00e9sima vez reitero que no debe interpretarse este post como un ataque a los pa\u00edses comentados, y menos a\u00fan a sus habitantes. Tan solo os hago saber, a quien a\u00fan lo desconoc\u00edais, lo que se encuentra ocurriendo en el mundo y que afecta al medio ambiente y la alimentaci\u00f3n mundial. Al fin y al cabo los que les invitaron a participar de la econom\u00eda de libre mercado y los acuerdos de libre comercio fueron los ricachones occidentales<\/strong>. Y como corolario de todo ello,<\/span> las consecuencias las paga la biosfera y los miserables trabajadores que moramos en este planeta azotado por la \u201cbestialidad\u201d de un sistema geopol\u00edtico y econ\u00f3mico palmariamente insustentable<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Juan Jos\u00e9 Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Chinese bi<\/strong>llionaire sees baguette goldmine in French fields<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

By Sandra LAFFONT with Julien GIRAULT in Beijing
\nThiel-Sur-Acolin, France (AFP) Feb 25, 2018<\/p>\n

In the peaceful French village of Thiel-sur-Acolin, retired farmer Marc Bernardet is ambivalent about having a Chinese billionaire for a neighbour. Over the past four years Hu Keqin has quietly snapped up 3,000 hectares of wheat fields in the central Indre and Allier regions, including next door to Bernardet.<\/p>\n

His purchases are part of a Chinese buying-spree in recent years stretching from the US to Australia. And in France, struggling farmers fear a landgrab. \u00abIt’s a piece of French heritage that is being taken, but that’s globalisation and that’s the trend at the moment,\u00bb Bernardet told AFP. \u00abIf it wasn’t the Chinese, it would be someone else.\u00bb<\/p>\n

The fields may be bare for winter, but Hu has big dreams: eventually they’ll provide some of the flour for 1,500 French bakeries in China, catering to a burgeoning middle class. But he is keenly aware of the suspicions his project faces in France, where farmers say their traditional family ownership model is under threat from a huge rise in investor purchases. \u00abWe take extremely good care of our land, and we’re using only French people to cultivate it,\u00bb the 57-year-old insisted in an interview at his Beijing offices.<\/p>\n

\u00abMany foreign investors are buying land in France,\u00bb added the understated businessman with a net worth estimated at $1.22 billion (1 billion euros) by Forbes magazine. \u00abAre we so different from the Germans or the English? Shouldn’t we, like the others, encourage the local economy to develop?\u00bb<\/p>\n

– Macron vows crackdown –<\/p>\n

Hu cannily used legal loopholes — buying almost all of each farm rather than the entirety — to skirt rules that can allow the French government to block sales of farmland. But President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday vowed to crack down on foreign investors buying up swathes of French land. \u00abFrench agricultural lands are strategic investments on which our sovereignty depends,\u00bb he told a crowd of young farmers at the presidential palace. \u00abWe can’t allow hundreds of hectares of land to be bought by foreign powers without us knowing the aims of these purchases.\u00bb<\/p>\n

Hu, who has spent 11 million euros on land in Allier alone, stressed that his plan is moving ahead with \u00absolid support\u00bb from the French government. His Reward Group is exploring a slew of tie-ups with French firms which, despite their suspicions, come as welcome news for a government that has prioritised kickstarting the economy. Central to Hu’s plans to conquer China with baguettes is a partnership with France’s biggest cereal cooperative Axereal to supply flour as well as bread-making know-how.<\/p>\n

– ‘Huge potential’ –<\/p>\n

And that’s just one of several potential French deals for Reward, which since 1995 has built an empire of everything from cleaning products to powdered milk. It is exploring a possible import deal with Bel, the maker of Laughing Cow cheese, and France’s biggest meat producer Bigard ahead of the lifting of an embargo on French beef. Reward took control last summer of a lavender soap maker in the south of France, Le Chatelard 1802, and has held further talks with a bakery chain, grain processor and soy company.<\/p>\n

As it looks to diversify and grow its foreign assets, the conglomerate is also eyeing land in Romania and has bought a US cosmetics factory. As far as the bakeries are concerned, having ingredients imported from France is particularly reassuring for Chinese consumers after a series of food scandals.<\/p>\n

The first, Chez Blandine, just opened in a chic Beijing shopping centre designed by star architect Zaha Hadid. Bread is rarely served with meals in a country of rice and dumplings, and the Chinese bakery scene remains dominated by chains offering filled buns adapted to local tastes. But Hu is banking on China getting hooked on the crunch of a traditional French baguette as more and more of its middle classes take European holidays. \u00abI’m counting on the young generation born in the 1980s and 1990s — keen travellers — and on children, but also the older generation whose eating habits are changing,\u00bb he said.<\/p>\n

\u00abThe potential is huge.\u00bb<\/p>\n

El multimillonario chino ve la mina de oro baguette en los campos franceses<\/p>\n

Por Sandra LAFFONT con Julien GIRAULT en Beijing<\/p>\n

Thiel-Sur-Acolin, Francia (AFP) 25 de febrero de 2018<\/p>\n

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China, comprador voraz de tierras agr\u00edcolas extranjeras<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Beijing (AFP) 25 de febrero de 2018 – La compra de un magnate chino de vastos campos de trigo en Francia pone de relieve la creciente adquisici\u00f3n de tierras agr\u00edcolas extranjeras por parte de China, ya que el gigante asi\u00e1tico busca mantenerse al d\u00eda con el creciente apetito de su poblaci\u00f3n masiva.<\/p>\n

Con 1.400 millones de bocas para alimentar, una quinta parte de la poblaci\u00f3n mundial, pero menos del 10 por ciento de la tierra cultivable del planeta, China ha buscado en el exterior satisfacer sus necesidades alimentarias.<\/p>\n

Adem\u00e1s del creciente consumo, los atroces esc\u00e1ndalos de seguridad alimentaria en el hogar tambi\u00e9n han impulsado el atractivo de los productos importados, considerados como apuestas m\u00e1s seguras.<\/p>\n

Las inversiones chinas en agricultura en el extranjero se han disparado a al menos $ 94 mil millones desde 2010, con casi la mitad de lo invertido en los \u00faltimos dos a\u00f1os, seg\u00fan estad\u00edsticas de los think tanks con sede en Estados Unidos, el American Enterprise Institute y Heritage Foundation.<\/p>\n

Las empresas chinas privadas y estatales han realizado inversiones que cubren nueve millones de hect\u00e1reas (22 millones de acres) en los pa\u00edses en desarrollo a partir de 2012. Pero en los \u00faltimos a\u00f1os, la atenci\u00f3n se ha desplazado a Australia, Estados Unidos y Europa.<\/p>\n

Aqu\u00ed est\u00e1n algunos de los negocios de agricultura en el extranjero m\u00e1s grandes de China:<\/p>\n

– Mega rancho australiano –<\/strong><\/p>\n

En 2016, el desarrollador chino Shanghai CRED entr\u00f3 con un grupo minero local para comprar el rancho m\u00e1s grande del mundo: S. Kidman & Co en Australia, que posee 185,000 cabezas de ganado y controla el 2.5 por ciento de todas las tierras agr\u00edcolas del pa\u00eds.<\/p>\n

La adquisici\u00f3n se produjo despu\u00e9s de la pol\u00e9mica adquisici\u00f3n en 2012 por la empresa china Shandong Ruyi de la mayor granja de algod\u00f3n de Australia.<\/p>\n

– Productos l\u00e1cteos de Nueva Zelanda –<\/strong><\/p>\n

Los gigantes chinos de la alimentaci\u00f3n Bright Food, Yili y Pengxin han comprado docenas de granjas lecheras de Nueva Zelanda a pesar de quejarse de los granjeros locales, y ahora producen all\u00ed productos que son muy apreciados en el mercado continental.<\/p>\n

– Cerdo americano –<\/strong><\/p>\n

El productor de carne de cerdo WH Group, anteriormente conocido como Shuanghui International Holdings, compr\u00f3 la compa\u00f1\u00eda estadounidense Smithfield Foods por $ 4.7 mil millones en 2013. Con la deuda incluida, el acuerdo val\u00eda $ 7.1 mil millones.<\/p>\n

– Ucrania rechazo –<\/strong><\/p>\n

En 2013, se informa que Ucrania, el granero de Europa, arrendar\u00eda tres millones de hect\u00e1reas de tierras agr\u00edcolas a un grupo chino y provoc\u00f3 una acalorada controversia, pero los ucranianos finalmente negaron los informes.<\/p>\n

En la tranquila aldea francesa de Thiel-sur-Acolin, el agricultor retirado Marc Bernardet es ambivalente acerca de tener un multimillonario chino para un vecino.<\/p>\n

En los \u00faltimos cuatro a\u00f1os, Hu Keqin compr\u00f3 en silencio 3.000 hect\u00e1reas de campos de trigo en las regiones centrales de Indre y Allier, incluso al lado de Bernardet.<\/p>\n

Sus compras son parte de una juerga de compras china en los \u00faltimos a\u00f1os que se extiende desde los EE. UU. Hasta Australia. Y en Francia, los agricultores que luchan temen un landgrab.<\/p>\n

\u00abEs una herencia francesa lo que se est\u00e1 tomando, pero eso es globalizaci\u00f3n y esa es la tendencia en este momento\u00bb, dijo Bernardet a la AFP.<\/p>\n

Macron eyes action against Chinese farm buyers<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/span>By Adam PLOWRIGHT and Jerome RIVET
\nParis (AFP) Feb 22, 2018<\/p>\n

President Emmanuel Macron promised measures Thursday to help prevent foreign investors buying French farms amid concern that Chinese businesses are taking advantage of low land prices and distressed rural communities<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u00abFor me, French agricultural lands are strategic investments on which our sovereignty depends, so we can’t allow hundreds of hectares of land to be bought by foreign powers without us knowing the aims of these purchases<\/strong>,\u00bb Macron told a crowd of young farmers at the presidential palace.<\/p>\n

He was referring to news last year that a Chinese fund had bought 900 hectares of land in the cereal-growing Allier region in central France, following an acquisition of 1,700 hectares in the Indre area in 2016<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u00abWe will very obviously put in place regulatory safeguards and will work with you… to put an end to what happened,\u00bb he told the farmers, referring to the acquisitions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Australia announced new restrictions on foreign buyers of agricultural land at the beginning of the month, while concerns about Chinese expansion abroad have been voiced from Africa to Canada in the past<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

At the end of last year, French rural association Safar urged the government to act against a huge increase in financial investors buying land which it said imperilled France’s traditional family ownership model<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Most of the new financial investors were French, it said, but after the Chinese acquisition last year, farmers’ union FDSEA accused the fund of preying on farmers on the verge of bankruptcy.<\/p>\n

– French protections –<\/p>\n

Macron was elected last May as a pro-business and pro-trade centrist, but he has also made shielding what he considers France’s strategic economic interests a priority<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

At the European level, he has argued for new measures to prevent the dumping of cheap job-killing Chinese imports<\/strong> on the EU as well as closer scrutiny of foreign investments in strategic sectors.<\/p>\n

In January, Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said France would broaden a domestic law that already subjects foreign investments in the energy and transport sectors to scrutiny to include purchases in the technology industry.<\/p>\n

Helping France’s farmers was another campaign pledge from Macron who wants to force supermarkets to pay them higher prices to raise incomes and help slow a population exodus from rural areas.<\/p>\n

The 40-year-old leader, a former investment banker painted by critics as a \u00abpresident for the rich\u00bb, is keen to bolster his credentials among voters outside of urban areas where support for him is strongest.<\/p>\n

He has proposed an investment plan worth five billion euros ($6.2 billion) over his term which he said Thursday would include a new fund worth one billion intended to provide loans to young farmers.<\/p>\n

\u00abWe are going to widen the sources of finance to take into account the changes underway and allow young farmers to start in their profession in the best possible way,\u00bb he said.<\/p>\n

The farming community remains sceptical, however, and a series of protests have been held nationwide recently over changes to farm subsidy rules and a possible trade deal with South American countries.<\/p>\n

Macron is likely to face their wrath at the annual Paris farm show on Saturday which is an obligatory stop for French leaders. Last year, he was hit on the head by an egg launched by a protester.<\/p>\n

French farmers are worried that a deal with the Mercosur bloc of Latin American countries could see up to 70,000 tonnes of tariff-free beef from countries such as Argentina or Brazil flooding Europe.<\/p>\n

Some campaigners have raised concerns about the use of hormones in these countries which lead to artificially high growth rates in cattle — a practice that is widespread in the United States.<\/p>\n

\u00abThere will never be beef with hormones in it in France. We shouldn’t play with fear,\u00bb Macron said. \u00abThere will be no reduction in our social, environmental or health standards.\u00bb<\/p>\n

Shipments of protected African species to Asia soar: study<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/span>by Staff Writers
\nHong Kong (AFP) March 5, 2018<\/p>\n

Shipments of protected African species including tortoises, pythons and parrots to Asia have soared since 2006 as demand grows in the Far East for exotic pets, meats and other animal products, a new study warned Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Wildlife imports of leopard tortoises, African spurred tortoises and ball pythons into Asia increased nearly tenfold in a decade, the report by monitoring network Traffic said, while trade in animal skins including seals also rose.<\/p>\n

Although much of the trade is legal, all of the species in the study are protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00abUntil now the legal wildlife trade between Africa and Asia has been largely overlooked,\u00bb said Willow Outhwaite, co-author of the \u00abEastward Bound\u00bb study, adding that the report aims to \u00abfill in some of the blanks in our understanding of this vast, complex\u00bb trade.<\/p>\n

Using import and export databases, the report found more than 1.3 million live animals and plants, 1.5 million skins and 2,000 tonnes of meat from CITES-listed species have been exported from Africa to East and Southeast Asia since 2006.<\/p>\n

Animals such as ball pythons and tortoises are popular in the Asian pet trade because of their docile nature and low space requirements, especially in crowded metropolises such as Hong Kong and Singapore.<\/p>\n

Trade in the three reptile species from Africa to Asia rose from 8,488 creatures in 2006 to 78,295 in 2015, the study found.<\/p>\n

But the trade may be having an impact in Africa, with reports of population declines of leopard tortoises due to unsustainable harvesting, the study said.<\/p>\n

Commercial exports of wild African spurred tortoises — the world’s third-largest tortoise — have been banned since 2000, according to CITES.<\/p>\n

The study also reported nearly 100,000 grey parrots were exported between the continents over that period, before the central African bird — prized for its ability to mimic human speech — was reclassified as endangered in 2016, all but outlawing the trade.<\/p>\n

The trade also raises concerns of animal cruelty in Asia, campaigners say.<\/p>\n

\u00abThe lack of adequate animal protection laws and education, especially in China, is resulting in out-of-control animal abuse,\u00bb said Jason Baker of the US-based animal rights group PETA.<\/p>\n

\u00abIf consumers had any idea what was happening, they’d be outraged.\u00bb<\/p>\n

– Animal skins –<\/p>\n

The report also found an increase in mammal skins shipped from Africa to Asia, especially Hong Kong and mainland China.<\/p>\n

The trade — mostly Cape fur seals hunted in Namibia — grew from 1,972 skins in 2007 to a peak of 20,651 in 2012.<\/p>\n

Namibia issues seal hunting permits each year, despite outcry from conservation groups that brand its annual cull a massacre for trade purposes.<\/p>\n

Authorities in the southern African country maintain that what they call seal harvesting is meant to control the burgeoning population which threatens the fishing industry.<\/p>\n

But activists slam these reasons as hypocritical, saying the hunts are carried out for commercial gain.<\/p>\n

The animals are harvested for their pelts, fat — which is used in beauty products — and male sexual organs, believed to have aphrodisiac properties in Asia.<\/p>\n

The majority of animal skins imported from Africa to Asia are crocodile, used particularly in Japan and Singapore for luxury leather goods such as handbags, belts, shoes, wallets and briefcases, the study said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Imperio Chino y los dragones asi\u00e1ticos, aunque tambi\u00e9n en parte Jap\u00f3n, y sin olvidarnos de la India, \u00a0poseen una mentalidad y un modo de proceder que nos resulta extra\u00f1o en el mundo occidental. La globalizaci\u00f3n de la econom\u00eda, as\u00ed como la dram\u00e1tica y bien conocida deslocalizaci\u00f3n industrial, han cambiado los h\u00e1bitos de miles de millones de sus habitantes, acarreando un auge econ\u00f3mico sin precedentes. Sin embargo la mayor parte de aquellos moradores siguen pasando tanto o m\u00e1s penurias que antes, al sufrir la tiran\u00eda de la dictadura financiara, trabajando en condiciones insalubres, polucionando y envenenando su atm\u00f3sfera, tierras y aguas,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[596],"tags":[40094,47100,46674,46993,46814,15244,47761],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":4}},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/universo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/universo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/universo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/universo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/universo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149456"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/universo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150361,"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/universo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149456\/revisions\/150361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/universo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/universo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/universo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}