Sentences with phrase «global illegal wildlife trade»

Global Financial Integrity, a Washington - based lobby group, last year estimated the global illegal wildlife trade to be worth at least # 5bn.

For the first time the UN General Assembly has taken up the global illegal wildlife trade as an issue of rule of law, alongside drug trafficking and similar issues.

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«They confirm that the scale of the illegal wildlife trade — including trade in plants — is much greater than we had previously thought, and that wildlife trafficking concerns many more species than the charismatic rhinos and elephants which tend to receive global attention.

The Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection Program (GSLEP) as well as the Snow Leopard Survival Strategy (2014) list illegal wildlife trade as one of the key threats facing this endangered cat and its prey species in the mountain ecosystems of its range 12 countries.

This proposed legislation would gut the Lacey Act, a global conservation success that curbs trade in illegal wildlife and forest products.