極危的岸鴴是紐西蘭獨有物種，野外只餘下約250隻。牠們被貓、鼠類等入侵物種威脅至幾乎滅絕。保育團隊嘗試圈養繁殖並野放到另一無威脅的島上。由於這些岸鴴必須於青年時期野放，就算在武漢肺炎的封鎖下，仍獲得通融能安排專機運送五隻岸鴴至新棲地野放。 Shore plover is a critically endangered bird that is endemic to New Zealand. There are only around 250 of them in the wild. They are mainly threatened by invasive species like cats and rats. Conservationists are trying to captive breed them and release them to predator-free islands when they are still juveniles. Due to the coronavirus lockdown, it has been harder to transfer them, but Air New Zealand managed to arrange a special flight just to bring five juveniles to their new home Mana Island.

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除了非法野生動物貿易，非洲的合法野生動物貿易亦造成巨大的威脅。於2011至2015年期間，共有270萬的野生動物在撒哈拉以南的非洲被合法交易；當中有120萬隻尼羅鱷、南非毛皮海獅、哈特曼山斑馬、非洲象及河馬等的皮毛，以及150萬隻活的球蟒、非洲灰鸚鵡、帝王蠍、豹紋陸龜及草原巨蜥等被用作寵物貿易。無論是野外捕獲或圈養繁殖，這些貿易都對動物及生態造成傷害和威脅。 Beside illegal wildlife trade, legal trade also damaging the biodiversity in Africa. between 2011-2015 in sub-Saharan African, 2,7 minion of wild animals were traded legally; including 1.2 million of animal skins from animals like the Nile crocodile, the Cape fur seal, Hartmann’s mountain zebra, the African elephant and the common hippo; also, around 1.5 million of live animals like the ball python, the African grey parrot, the emperor scorpion, the leopard tortoise, and the savannah monitor lizard were legally trade as pets. whether these animal were wild-caught or captive-breed, these trades are causing harm and threats to the animal and biodiversity.