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.

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.

Source: The Economist, “Marching as to war,” February 2, 2008.

Source: The Economist, “Marching as to war,” February 2, 2008, pg. 45.

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.

Source: Lenie Lectura, Losses from cable-TV piracy may hit P7B in ’08 with only 2% growth in paying subscribers, Business Mirror.

Source: AME Info, May 20, 2008.

Forbes Magazine has a photo slide show about counterfeit dollars and the steps to prevent counterfeiting.

See the entire slide show here.

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.

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.