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- Multi-billion dollar trade
- Unlawful harvest of and trade in live animals or plants
- Endangered animals = targets of wildlife crime
- Positioned alongside illegal drugs and arm trades
- Wildlife Trade Hotspots
- China's international borders
- Trade hubs(East/Southern Africa and Southeast Asia
- Eastern borders of EU
- Mexico's markets
- Carribean
- Organized crime
- criminal acts that are planned by powerful groups and carried out by a large scale
- Cash
- Exchange for useful objects
- Utensils in exchange for wild animal skins
- End-consumer
- Need or desire for wildlife products
- Food, organs, construction, clothing
- TRAFFIC estimates: 160 billion dollars worth of animal products imported globally
- Wildlife Monitoring Network (TRAFFIC)
- World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
- Launched global campaign in 2013 to put an end to the IWT (illegal wildlife trading)
- "we are launching an unprecedented campaign to convince the Thai public not to buy ivory and make the connection between ivory and dead elephants" response to Thailand (one of the largest illegal trading markets in the world
1. Push governments to protect threatened animal populations
- Law enforcements
- Lowering demand
2. Choose environmental-friendly/sustainable foods
3. Report any illegal wildlife trade
4. Basic education
- wildlife protection laws
5. Support wildlife-protecting organizations
Illegal dumping is dumping of any waste, whether it is oil, furniture, appliances, trash, litter or landscaping cuttings in either private
Everywhere:
- Households
- Offices
- Commercial wastes
- Industrial areas
Contaminated soil accounted for 22,220 tons of the state's total hazardous waste flow in 1987
Lake Karachay
Mayak - nuclear waste storage
Toxic waste
- Global population
- industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations
- metal finishers, gas stations, auto repair shops, dry cleaners, and photo developers
- burning of fossil fuels like oil, gas or coal
- exhaust fumes from your vehicles. - garbage pollution
Picture: Garbage vast last 35 years
Solid Waste Association of North America (SWAMA)
- “an organization of professionals committed to advancing from solid waste management to resource management through (our) shared emphasis on education, advocacy, and research”
North American Hazardous Materials Management Association (NAHHMA)
- disposing hazardous waste from households and small businesses
- provide guidance to reduce toxic waste
- Encouragement
- Many dumped items are low-cost
- recycle or dispose at local depot
- keeping areas clean