Market Data: 2008 July
Price increase of ivory
Price of ivory has increased from $200 a kilo in 2004 to $850 to $900 in 2008.
Source: The Economist, “Call of the wild,” March 8, 2008, pg. 85.
- No Comments » |July 30th, 2008
- Tags: Prices on the black market, Wildlife Smuggling Statistics
Decline of Rhino population
In the early 1970s, the global rhino population stood at 75,000. In 2008, it stood around 11,000.
Source: The Economist, “Call of the wild”, March 8, 2008, pg. 86.
- No Comments » |July 30th, 2008
- Tags: Wildlife Smuggling Statistics
530 to 710 tonnes of cocaine enter the US through Mexico each year
Source: The Economist, “Marching as to war,” February 2, 2008.
- No Comments » |July 30th, 2008
- Tags: Cocaine, Mexico Black Market, Mexico Drug Trafficking
Drugs contribute roughly 4 percent of Mexico’s GDP
Source: The Economist, “Marching as to war,” February 2, 2008, pg. 45.
- No Comments » |July 30th, 2008
- Tags: Mexico Black Market, Mexico Drug Trafficking
40 percent of drug arrests in US for marijuana
According to Foreign Policy Magazine, in the United States “roughly 40 percent of the country’s 1.8 million annual drug arrests are for cannabis possession.”
Source: Ethan Nadelmann, “Think Again: Drugs,” Foreign Policy, Sept/Oct 2007.
- 1 Comment » |July 30th, 2008
- Tags: Drug Trafficking in the United States, Marijuana
3 million illegal cable subscribers in the Philippines
Source: Lenie Lectura, Losses from cable-TV piracy may hit P7B in ’08 with only 2% growth in paying subscribers, Business Mirror.
- No Comments » |July 30th, 2008
- Tags: Cable Piracy, Philippines Black Market
75.5 percent of Pay TV viewers use illegal connections in Egypt
Source: AME Info, May 20, 2008.
- No Comments » |July 30th, 2008
- Tags: Cable Piracy, Egypt Black Market
Counterfeit Dollars pictures
Forbes Magazine has a photo slide show about counterfeit dollars and the steps to prevent counterfeiting.
- No Comments » |July 25th, 2008
- Tags: Counterfeit Currency
Average age of child prostitute’s act between 10 to 14
According to an editorial from the New York Times, the average age of a child prostitute’s first sex act is between 10 to 14.
Source: “Help for Victimized Children,” New York Times, Editorial, July 19, 2008.
- No Comments » |July 22nd, 2008
- Tags: Child Trafficking, Human Smuggling, Prostitution in the United States
One-Third of DVD consumers make personal copies
One-third of consumers copy DVDs. Those in the United States who copy DVDs are copying the DVDs from rented sources like Netflix.
Source: Tom Spring, “One Third of Consumers are DVD Pirates?,” PC World, Today @ PC World, July 8, 2008.
- No Comments » |July 10th, 2008
- Tags: Movie Piracy Statistics


