Sentences with phrase «for illegal trade»

Infant primates are ideal for this illegal trade as they live longer and are less aggressive.

The Tokyo Police announced on June 20th that it had charged the president of antique company, Raftel, and 27 customers with violating Japan's Law for the Conservation of Endangered Species (LCES) for illegal trade in unregistered ivory.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police announced on June 20th that it had charged the president of antique company, Raftel, and 27 customers with violating Japan's Law for the Conservation of Endangered Species (LCES) for illegal trade in unregistered ivory.

«EBay is the world's largest online marketplace and by default a significant channel for illegal trade in wildlife products on the Internet.»

Within the past week, Thailand officials seized seven tons of ivory, representing the slaughter of hundreds of African elephants for illegal trade.

«Poaching is rising again in Africa, to the point where we have 20,000 elephants being killed annually just for the illegal trade,» says Peter Pueschel, IFAW's Wildlife Trade Program Manager.

«We see rangers risking their lives to keep these animals from being killed for the illegal trade.

«We did not expect cacti to be so highly threatened and for illegal trade to be such an important driver of their decline.

Taken together, their responses reveal that pastoralists account for 55 per cent of the killings, with poachers hunting 21 per cent for illegal trade in the furs and another 18 per cent succumbing to non-targeted methods such as hidden snares.

Whoever you are, and wherever you live, show zerotolerance for the illegal trade in wildlife and the destruction of our environment, in word and deed, and make a difference.

Outlawing Spice has created a market opportunity for illegal trade, with dire consequences for the most vulnerable.

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Hundreds of millions of US Dollars, Euro, and other currencies are moved around daily all over the world in exchange for illegal trades.

Hundreds of millions of US Dollars, Euro, and other currencies are moved around daily all over the world in exchange for illegal trades.

Not exact matches

The security breach comes two months after Bitfinex was ordered to pay a $ 75,000 fine by the U.S. Commodity and Futures Trading Commission in part for offering illegal off - exchange financed commodity transactions in bitcoin and other digital currencies.

Corsair Artisan Distillery's Darek Bell talks to Fortune about his dream drink and how to recruit talent for a (partially) illegal trade.

For most of the stock market's history, buybacks were actually illegal — considered to be insider trading — the thought being that if you ran the company, you would have nonpublic information to know when to buy shares.

The indictment states that SAC has been charged «with criminal responsibility for insider trading offenses committed by numerous employees and made possible by institutional practices that encouraged the widespread solicitation and use of illegal inside information.»

«The government's basic rule is to prevent any illegal acts or uncertainties regarding cryptocurrency trade, while eagerly nurturing blockchain technology,» Hong Nam - ki, minister of the office for government policy coordination, said in a statement.

This digital - currency trading platform provided an online black market for money laundering of illegal drugs, weapons and human trafficking and other nefarious offerings.

More common and larger - scale cyber-attacks (from Sony pictures to Spanish renewable energy companies) are yet another example of this unprecedented «communication» flow; just as growth of the dark web has allowed for more effective connections in illegal activities — drug trade, human trafficking, and the like.

However, despite having a somewhat lenient stance on the crypto - trade going around in the nation, the country has been very strict on anyone who has been evading their taxes or using cryptocurrencies for illegal purposes.

While it is not illegal for any listed Binary Options brokerage to trade with US traders, any disputes that may arise between brokers and traders will have to be legally resolved only in the US which usually leads to substantial costs to the broker, possibly resulting in hefty fines and / or penalties.

Unfortunately for Buffett, Sokol's purchases smell like illegal insider trades.

The recent announcement by the World Trade Organization stating that China's export policies for REEs was illegal should have breathed new life into the non-Chinese space and it really didn't.

For example, a carbon tax that reduced oil consumption might be deemed an illegal restraint of trade unless it were mandated by some international body.

StemExpress, a for - profit company partnered with over 30 abortion clinics, including Planned Parenthood, to harvest and sell aborted baby parts and provide a «financial benefit» to Planned Parenthood clinics, is attempting to use meritless litigation to cover - up this illegal baby parts trade, suppress free speech, and silence the citizen press reporting on issues of burning concern to the American public.

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But at the end of the day, you're contributing to an illegal trade, hurting small business and you'll have no warranty or support for the products you pilfered.

We refer to the company as Wyeth (or more fully, John Wyeth and Brother Ltd) as that is the company that was taken to court by Trading Standards in 2003 for breaking the law with an illegal SMA formula advertising campaign.

Alf Hitchcock, Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, added: «For some time, police forces have been working closely with Trading Standards to address the illegal sale of knives to young people.

As discussed here in the Monkey Cage, the state historically had abandoned many of these areas — which evolved into strategic zones for transnational organized crime, especially the illegal drug trade.

The IFWA is calling for «robust domestic legislation» and an international action plan to tackle illegal wildlife trade on the internet.

Black trade with illegal luxury goods is also a catalyst for organized crime - syndicates to form which then tend to commit various other crimes.

The change follows a decision by Home Secretary Theresa May to ban the drug, which has already been outlawed in other European countries, to avoid Britain becoming a hub for trading in a substance that was illegal elsewhere.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara applauded a new Supreme Court decision on insider trading, after the court found that a trading tip «gift» can be used by a secondary person and still be considered an illegal use of that information for personal benefit.

Nearly two tons of trinkets, statues and jewelry crafted from the tusks of at least 100 slaughtered elephants are heading for a rock crusher in New York City's Central Park to demonstrate the state's commitment to smashing the illegal ivory trade.

Millions of dollars of ivory was destroyed in Central Park on Thursday as the state fights for elephants and against illegal ivory trade.

The UK government is «particularly responsible» for illegal - trade related tax evasion because nearly half the world's tax havens are UK overseas territories, development charity Christian Aid has said.

Prosecutors charge that Mr. Silver, a Democrat from the Lower East Side, traded official actions for $ 3 million in an illegal kickback scheme.

Failure to implement these recommendations will only make the illegal tobacco trade worse and provide yet another financial windfall for those who wish us harm.

One trade earned a $ 53 million illegal windfall for Greenwich - based Level Global Investors LP co-founder Anthony Chiasson and the fund, prosecutors claimed.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara applauded a new Supreme Court decision on insider trading on Tuesday, after the court found that a trading tip «gift» can be used by a secondary person and still be considered an illegal use of that information for personal benefit.

Even though other countries are clamping down on illegal ivory, the unconstrained trade in Japan may offer loopholes for criminals to keep selling ivory — fuelling elephant poaching

«Tackling the illegal wildlife trade will require a deep understanding of human behavior, of the poachers that engage in the supply side of the trade, and the consumers that drive the demand for wildlife products,» said Diogo Verissimo, David H. Smith Conservation Fellow, Johns Hopkins University.

Other agricultural production goods include timber, fertilizers, animal hides, leather, industrial chemicals (starch, sugar, alcohols and resins), fibers (cotton, wool, hemp, silk and flax), fuels (methane from biomass, ethanol, biodiesel), cut flowers, ornamental and nursery plants, tropical fish and birds for the pet trade, and both legal and illegal drugs (biopharmaceuticals, tobacco, marijuana, opium, cocaine).

Reductions in biodiversity from illegal wildlife trade can have other substantial negative human health impacts, including the loss of potential sources of pharmaceuticals, experimental models for studying disease, crop pollination and micronutrients for humans lacking alternative sources of protein.

The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has been interested for some time in the use of DNA - based tests to aid law enforcement and to help combat this illegal trade.

Leading scientists from around the world convened this week at the International Congress for Conservation Biology in Cartagena, Colombia, to discuss how to better leverage science to combat illegal wildlife trade — both within countries and across international borders.

Recent reports from ABC News and the UK's Daily Mail suggest eBay is providing a platform for sellers engaged in an illegal prescription drug trade.