Sentences with phrase «illicit wildlife trade»

The driving factor behind these troubling figures, reports the UN, lies in the burgeoning illicit wildlife trade, once a localized market that is increasingly grown into a highly - profitable network of organized crime — on par with the drug and arms trade.

The illicit wildlife trade is intimately linked to wealth and organised crime.

Not exact matches

Science can help measure the scope, scale and impact of illegal wildlife trade, map illicit networks and assess the effect of social marketing and other interventions designed to reduce demand.

The illicit trade in wildlife and wildlife parts is now a multi-billion industry decimating iconic animal populations, undermining security across nations, and threatening ecosystems, food security, human health, and livelihoods among the world's poorest communities.

There are promising signs, including a set of meetings, described in March by China Daily, between Chinese and American officials pursuing ways to cooperate in stemming the trade in illicit wildlife products, including totoaba swim bladders (which often get to China through the United States).

I was glad to see Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, even amid so many other pressing foreign - policy challenges, committing the United States to doing more to cut the illicit trade in wildlife and related products.

That's why it was encouraging to see Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton take an hour today at State Department headquarters to stress the importance of stemming the booming illicit global trade in wildlife.

It's a drop in the bucket compared to the total value of the illicit global trade in wildlife, but WWF's winning a $ 5 million grant from Google is one more small step in eradicating the black market in endangered species.