Rhino horn daggers in Arab nations cost up to $14,000 on black market
Source: AFP, “Wildlife Smuggling in Asia still a roaring trade,” Yahoo News, June 3, 2007.
Profits from smuggling wildlife can be as high as 800 percent
Source: Ben Davies, Black Market: Inside the Endangered Species Trade in Asia, (California: Earth Aware.2005), pg. 28.
Animal increases in value as it moves along supply chain
According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the value of the animal increases between 25 to 50 percent as it moves through the supply chain.
Source: Royal Canadian Mounted Police, “Just the Facts,” Gazette, Vol.66, Issue 3, 2004.
Poachers are geting $35 to $50 a kilo for wildlife
In the 1980s, poachers were getting $5 to $6 a kilo.
Source: Annie Mcilroy, :Genetic maps help unravel black market in ivory,” Globe and Mail, February 27, 2007, http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070227.wxelephants27/BNStory/Science/home (accessed: March 3, 2007).
Type of products seized in the UK during a 12 month period
Over a million plants, live and dead animals, animal parts, and medicines produced from endangered species were seized in the United Kingdom during a 12-month period.
Source: Louise Gray, “War declared on wildlife thieves,” The Scotsman, October 19, 2006.
The wildlife animal industry in China has an estimated value of $500 million
Source: Karl Taro Greenfeld, China Syndrome: The True Story of the 21st Century’s First Great Epidemic, (New York: HarperCollins,2006), pg. 376.
China largest market for various illegal wildlife products
China is the biggest market in the world for tiger bone, leopard cat, rhino horn, and sea horse, and imports up to fifteen tons of ivory each year.
Source: Ben Davies, Black Market: Inside The Endangered Species Trade in Asia, (California: Earth Aware.2005) , pg. 29.
Internal tiger trade ban costs China $4 billion
Officials in China has stated that the ban on the internal trade in tiger parts has cost the country $4 billion.
Source: The Economist, April 21, 2007, pg. 49.
Black Market trade in wildlife worth $1 billion in Indonesia
Source: AFP, “Wildlife Smuggling in Asia still a roaring trade,” Yahoo News, June 3, 2007.
Between 26 million and 73 million shark fins are sold every year in Hong Kong
Source: Mark Henderson, “Taste for fins puts shark on danger list,” Times (UK), February 18, 2008.
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