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JANUARY 4, 2010

Chances are you'll see a bizarre overemphasis on cocaine and how it grows and who sells it on street corners and little attention on major traffickers, their national and transnational syndicates, and the government regulators and prosecutors who failed to stop the trafficking. You will see no names beyond the lowest level traffickers.

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DECEMBER 25, 2009

Page, a meat cutter from Curlew, was sentenced to a year jail in Ferry County Superior Court after being convicted on six counts of unlawful trafficking in wildlife. Tags: wildlife trafficking State of Washington bears. Page, 63, was sentenced Dec. 18 and was also fined $3,000.

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MARCH 2, 2009

ZAMBIA Wildlife Authority (Zawa) yesterday arrested four people, including two police officers, in Kafue for trafficking in ivory and rhino horns worth more than K1 billion. Tags: wildlife crime ivory africa zambia trafficking elephants. 36 elephants? 36 elephants? That's a huge slaughter in my opinion.

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JANUARY 15, 2010

Tags: wildlife trafficking gall bladders bears. Tohru Shigemura made repeated trips to Washington to hunt bear, taking animals out of season and on tribal lands. Shigemura, prosecutors claim, also amassed a collection of 11 firearms without the appropriate permits.

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AUGUST 13, 2009

Tags: wildlife crime wildlife trafficking malaysia endangered species. Malaysia is a transit hub, a supply source, and a consumer hub for endangered wildlife. A deadly combination.

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AUGUST 30, 2009

Tags: wildlife crime Traditional Chinese Medicine trafficking china malaysia. "We believe the animals were destined to be sold to Asian countries for their meat, as well as their scales to be used as traditional medicine," the department's enforcement chief Saharudin Anan told AFP.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Tags: wildlife trafficking thailand. Sad, but at least the government is trying to help these animals.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Tags: wildlife crime ivory wildlife trafficking africa elephants.

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DECEMBER 3, 2009

From the Environment News Service. Tags: ivory wildlife trafficking africa elephants. More than two tons of illegal ivory have been seized and more than 100 people have been arrested in the largest international operation targeting wildlife crime across Eastern Africa, the Kenya Wildlife Service and INTERPOL announced today.

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JUNE 25, 2010

The guy was clearly trafficking in illegal parts as there were about 50 kg of bones belonging to other tigers. Tags: wildlife smuggling vietnam wildlife trafficking tigers panthers. This happened in Vietnam.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2009

Tags: wildlife smuggling wildlife crime otters India organizations poaching tigers. In India this time. They seized tiger skins, tiger bones and otter skins. Where could those tiger bones be going but to Asian countries to make tiger bone wine?

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JULY 19, 2010

A police raid that uncovered 42 stolen vehicles and a mini-zoo of exotic animals in Taman Wahyu here yesterday is proof that wildlife trafficking is linked to organised crime, said wildlife trade monitoring group TRAFFIC. Tags: organized crime wildlife trafficking malaysia.

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APRIL 30, 2010

(Sounds like these guys were orphaned as a result of bushmeat and illegal trafficking activities.) Tags: wildlife trafficking united nations bush meat congo gorillas. Frankly, with the rate these poor animals are being decimated, I wonder sometimes if they SHOULD be released back into the wild.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Sher Singh, one of the kingpins of the countrywide wildlife trafficking racket involved in stealing eight common marmosets from Alipore Zoo on August 9, walked off a train in the wee hours of Friday. Sure doesn't sound like these guys take wildlife trafficking very seriously. Tags: India wildlife trafficking. Unfortunate.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Since the demand continues, so does the trafficking.". Tags: wildlife trafficking us endangered species. This includes wildlife used for food, whether for cultural reasons or luxury markets," says Leigh Henry, a senior policy officer for the World Wildlife Fund and the international wildlife-trade monitoring network TRAFFIC.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2010

During the meeting, participants carried out an analysis of the current situation regarding wildlife trafficking across the Russian-Chinese border, and discussed practical ways it could be addressed. Tags: wildlife smuggling wildlife trafficking tigers china russia.

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DECEMBER 20, 2008

There's a big article at the ABC News site. accuses} the temple of illegally trafficking and mistreating the tigers, allegations that the temple emphatically denies. Tags: tigers thailand. Some conservationists worry that the tigers living at a Buddhist Temple in Thailand are drugged, but the monks deny it.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Tags: wildlife crime wildlife trafficking. According to this article, the current funds are not sufficient for the work involved. Not surprising.

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JULY 26, 2009

It was reported that two men were arrested for attempting to transport the baby tiger carcass - along with the bones of at least two tigers - and that the “case showed the possibility of larger-scale tiger trafficking in the country.” The baby tiger was between four and five months old.

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JANUARY 18, 2010

Tags: wildlife trafficking gall bladders bears. This culprit is a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and is serving only 6 months for illegally selling 51 bear gall bladders.

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AUGUST 25, 2009

Illegal wildlife traffickers provide fake credentials to establish that primates are being legitimately offered for sale. Tags: wildlife crime wildlife trafficking africa primates endangered species cameroon. This is totally fraudulent, however, because CITES bans international trade and does not issues such permits.

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AUGUST 15, 2009

Tags: wildlife smuggling wildlife crime wildlife trafficking latin america. They are dying them to look like Amazonian species which are more valuable on the black market.

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MAY 18, 2010

Tags: ivory wildlife trafficking extinction poaching elephants endangered species. Very upsetting article.

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MAY 4, 2009

She is thought to be about two years old, was hidden at the bottom of a bag and covered with clothes when Congolese Wildlife Authority officers arrested the suspected trafficker at Goma airport. Tags: wildlife crime smuggling trafficking congo gorillas endangered species. Here is an article about it.

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JUNE 24, 2010

Tags: wildlife smuggling wildlife trafficking orangutans. Very, very sad picture of baby orangutan.

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JULY 7, 2009

Trafficking in ivory and game meat has become one of the most lucrative illegal trades in Africa due to rising demand in Asia, experts said on Friday. "In Tags: wildlife crime ivory africa trafficking asia elephants. There is no magic, no power, NOTHING to it. It's just so frustrating! From the AFP.

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DECEMBER 9, 2009

Tags: wildlife smuggling wildlife trafficking reptiles Stupid new zealand lizards. You can't make these things up.

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DECEMBER 30, 2008

Tags: wildlife crime ivory wildlife trafficking trafficking elephants. One point which must be emphasized: while the methods described in this handbook are reliable for the purposes described (i.e.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Tags: wildlife smuggling wildlife trafficking asia pet trade. Just depressing.

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MAY 16, 2009

Tags: wildlife smuggling wildlife crime trafficking. Over 1,000 animals were rescued, including 500 bull finches and 300 picoplats, The rescued wildlife also included monkeys, parrots, macaws and other species from Venezuela. There was also over 400 lbs of "wild meat" (I don't want to know what that could be!).

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AUGUST 16, 2008

pleaded guilty in March to five counts of trafficking in wild animals. Tags: wildlife trafficking blood sport fox hunting us. Howard Glen Blevins, 68, of Asheville, N.C., A statement from U.S. Hunters would then pay to hunt in the pens. Often they were injured.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Tags: wildlife crime wildlife trafficking. A man was arrested at the airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil after 200 canaries were found in his suitcase. Sixty of them were dead from suffocation and thirst. How horrible.

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DECEMBER 7, 2009

Tags: wildlife smuggling cambodia wildlife trafficking reptiles tortoises snakes. They found 3,640 pounds (1,655 kilograms) of snakes, mostly pythons, and 263 tortoises that weighed a combined 697 pounds (317 kilograms), said Col. Chan Savouen, deputy police chief of Kandal province.

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AUGUST 14, 2009

Tags: wildlife crime UK wildlife trafficking Traditional Chinese Medicine tigers endangered species. The raid took place on the day an amendment to the law controlling illegal trade in endangered species came into effect.

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JANUARY 4, 2010

Tags: India wildlife trafficking poaching tigers china. I don't trust the Chinese government on any issue. whether it be animal rights or human rights. What kind of protection do they really mean? You can put tigers on a farm for legal parts harvesting and still call it "protection." I'm too, too cynical.

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AUGUST 25, 2008

No wonder wildlife trafficking is such a problem. Tags: iccn chimpanzees wildlife trafficking africa congo. Even members of the army are involved. In this case, someone confused a baby chimp with a baby gorilla. ICCN (Congolese Wildlife Authority) rangers received a tip-off that someone in Goma was trying to sell a baby gorilla.

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MARCH 8, 2010

Tags: organized crime wildlife smuggling wildlife crime wildlife trafficking. Operation Tram "revealed a large amount of medicines either containing or marketing the use of illegal ingredients such as tiger, bear and rhinoceros," according to the French-based international coordinating body.

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