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The European Union and its candidate countries suffer from a lack of consistent laws on the breeding, sale and keeping of exotic pets, which allows the trafficking and black market sale of animals to thrive.

Although national authorities seize some trafficked animals, the varying legislation and its implementation fails to control the high numbers of trafficked animals throughout member states.

I've attached all the little things I built together with these wonderful journalists, we made promotional paying cards as learning tools, small animations for the main documentary, website assets and anything needed for comms.

The production of this investigation was supported by a grant from Investigative Journalism for Europe IJ4EU.