exotic pet markets

Cockroaches are transforming from pests to valuable resources. A burgeoning industry sees these insects fetching high prices for scientific research and the exotic pet market. Their unique proteins show promise for medicine, including fighting drug-resistant bacteria and aiding wound healing. This shift highlights an unexpected economic opportunity, turning a reviled creature into a source of scientific advancement and profit.

Filled with pet stores that cram hundreds of exotic birds and animals into cages, Murgi Chowk, a bustling pet market in Old City, continues to flourish in Hyderabad despite regulations and raids by the police and forest department.

The animal welfare board of India (AWBI) has asked its state counterparts to regulate pet shops and breeding centres and ensure that they have been registered and all animals are in good health.

Imported, expensive and much in demand! Like perfumes in a pre-liberalised India, it is exotic pets that the rich are now hankering after.

Indigenous canines as pets is becoming an increasingly rare sight in the city, which has seen an explosion in the number of dog ownership and exotic foreign dog breeds

Owners of several thousands exotic pets in Chennai are waiting with bated breath as there are just two days left for the new, amended Wild Life (Protection) Act to kick in across the nation. Once it takes effect on April 1, 2023, owning invasive alien species, including exotic, non-native animals, birds, reptiles and rodents will be a punishable offence. It, however, takes a lenient view towards people who already own exotic pets, provided they make selfdeclaration of the pets they own.

Aman in his 30s entered a 20sqftx20sqft pet shop in the fish market in Kolathur. He had a carton with three albino porcupines in it, and was bragging about how he can get any animal from timid finger monkey to leopard. When asked about a pair of marmoset, his eyes brightened as it costs `4.5-5 lakh.

Bombay high court on Thursday said BMC and police will have to take action on complaints of illegal sale of exotic birds and animals from across the city, and not restrict it to Crawford Market.

The police, along with animal rights activists, raided a pet shop in Kharghar on Friday and rescued two star turtles.The endangered reptile cannot be kept at home as a pet.

About 171 star tortoises that were about to be smuggled abroad were seized by DRI officials, while customs officials seized two consignments with exotic pets such as mangabeys, pythons and marmosets in two different incidents.

Deadline August 31 but only six applications in MP

Chennai has become a major hub for wildlife trafficking, with weak laws and lucrative trade driving the illegal pet market.

With no rules to curb wildlife trafficking, undocumented endangered species are bagged overseas, smuggled into Chennai and bred, spawning a billion-dollar pet industry