Katya Alexander

Jun 19, 2024 | worldcrunch.com | Rene Ebersole |Katya Alexander

Patricia Tricorache, an independent wildlife trade investigator based in Mexico City, spends hours each day lit by the glow of her computer screen, trawling social media sites for people buying and selling wild cheetahs. Between 2010 and 2019, she found 2,298 live cheetahs illegally advertised online by 528 sellers, with most advertisements appearing on social media. “It was like a rabbit hole.