Sentences with phrase «scale wildlife trafficking»
Shen announced several new initiatives, including having United States intelligence agencies to produce «an assessment of the impact of large - scale wildlife trafficking on our security interests.»
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«The scope and scale of illegal wildlife trafficking today is unprecedented,» said Meredith Gore, an associate professor of fisheries and wildlife at Michigan State University and Jefferson Science Fellow at the U.S. Department of State.
«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.
Trafficking wildlife is part of the business model of violent groups like the Lord Resistance Army, which commit atrocities at a large scale.