Sentences with phrase «growing illegal trade»

The conviction comes just as US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has pledged increased US assistance to stem to growing illegal trade in endangered species.

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Sex trafficking is the fastest growing illegal trade in the country, and is expected to surpass drug trafficking in the next two years.

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The illegal drug trade on the dark web is growing rapidly, despite authorities shutting down major market sites like AlphaBay, as crime gangs diversify and seek new clients online, a report by two European Union agencies warned on Tuesday.

Many of the impacted species — found in South America, Africa and Southeast Asia — are protected by law, but such measures have not stopped a growing illegal timber trade.

Amidst growing efforts to tackle the illegal wildlife trade crisis, the NUS researchers call for more attention to protect Southeast Asia's botanical diversity.

The illegal trade in cacti has been reduced to a certain extent by the inclusion, since 1975, of most cactus species on CITES appendices and through the increased availability of plants grown from seed on the international market.

Logging has been limited to selective thinning of forestland, but the roads built to accommodate mechanized equipment have provided organized groups of hunters with easier access to the apes and helped support a growing and illegal trade in «bush meat.»

Rhodiola rosea grew primarily in Siberia and it was so valued that it was illegal to trade it outside of Russian borders.

While The Ivory Game's ambitiously broad look at the illegal ivory trade takes on a bit more than it needs to, it does shed some definite light on a growing global problem.

As the Defendant publishers and their physical book distribution systems get smaller and less profitable, competitors like Barnes & Noble teeter on the Borders of financial failure, and Apple becomes bored with an iBookstore whose marketplace it can not control by illegal means, Amazon's share of the total book trades market only grows, and grows, and grows.

Grand Theft Auto 5's ever - growing online component GTA Online has outlined its plans moving into 2017, which includes new stunt races, game modes, vehicles, and missions — the latter of which will involve players at some stage fighting «for supremacy in the illegal arms trade and wage war with the latest in high - powered military hardware.»

Law Enforcement in Florida spends a great deal of resources on the drug trade (Marijuana, Cocaine, Methamphetamines, Illegal Prescription Medication, Xanax, Narcotics, etc.) and accordingly our firm stands ready to defend all Drug Arrests no matter the allegation, including Drug Possession; Drug Cultivation; Drug Production; Drug Manufacturing; Grow House; Laboratory; Drug Trafficking; Intent to Distribute Drugs, Drug Distribution; Intent to Sell Drugs, Drug Sale or Drug Purchase; Obtaining Controlled Substance by Fraud.

It has been widely reported that marijuana grown in B.C. has been traded for illegal guns and cocaine in the U.S. and that these items are then smuggled back into Canada.