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Comittee: International Labor Organization. Topic: Wild animal trafficking. Country: Japan

The wild animal traffic is a very bad thing to do, because you can wipe out a specie and also because the ecosystem in wich you take the specie and put the specie on will be affected. The ecosystems would be affected because the food chains will lost one member and the animals won't do anything in relationship with these animal. Some people don't mind this, and gets animals illegaly in this way to sell them or to do objects with them like clothes, shoes, bags, watches and lots of types of jewels. Japan is a country that gets a lot of animals in this way, a lot of people ( a few compared with all the populaton of Japan ) do it. Japan's position is that they are against this topic, and the law is very strict in animal trafficking, but lots of people don't mind the law, and they don't mind at least the environment, that is a very bad thing, and the police can't do anything in most of the cases.

Japan is one of the countries that get more animals illegaly, nearly 1,600 animals a day, but it doesn't give a lot of animals to other countries because they don´t need to, they have a lot of political and economical powerto get animals but they don't need to give. The animal trafficking is a bad business that is going good on Japan.

Lots of laws are maken by Japan to avoid this situation, but the people that is envolved in this topic don't obbey the law, and they will continue hunting animals, thing that is bad to the image of Japan but good to it economical power. Japan's law is very strict in this topic and everyone that have some in relation with animal trafficking will have problems, because in Japan illegal traffic of species is a very bad thing, that the most of the times is payed with prison.

They reciently have done less actions in Japan and helps other countries in this problem. Japan is now helping other countries that need their help like Colombia and a lot of more countries. Japan is very helpful with all the countries that need it help in that topic because years ago ti had the same problem and it needed the countries' help.

"Animal trafficking is the worst trafficking in the world, worse than drugs and weapons trafficking" said Naoto Kan, prime minister of Japan. It is demostrated than less than 1% of the japanese population is in relationship with animal trafficking, but this people are very active, 160,000 animals are imported to Japan everyday ( alive or death ).

In my opinion Japan doesn't have a problem with animal trafficking but it is good helping other countries. My recomendation to solve this problem is that the countries have to protect their borders with an army. The conclusion is that Japan is very helpful now with the topic of animal trafficking because years ago it also had a problem with it.