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An immense, increasingly sophisticated illegal trade in wildlife parts conducted by organized crime, coupled with antiquated enforcement methods, are decimating the world’s most beloved species including rhinos, tigers, and elephants on a scale never before seen. Much of the trade is driven by wealthy East Asian markets that have a seemingly insatiable appetite for wildlife parts.

Organized crime syndicates using sophisticated smuggling operations have penetrated even previously secure wildlife populations. Some of the elaborate methods include hidden compartments in shipping containers, rapidly changing of smuggling routes; and the use of e-commerce whose locations are difficult to detect.
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We’re on the brink of the next great mass extinction–in fact, we’re right in the middle of it.. Past extinction events have wiped out 75% of the animal species on the Earth within a short period of time, and it’s still going on, and many Chinese medicines are partly responsible for this, since they use body parts, like rhino horn, from some endangered species.
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