The International Chamber of Commerce stated that people in Europe downloaded $13.7 Billion (10 Billion Euros) worth of pirated movies, music, tv shows and software in 2008.

Source:  Associated Press, “European Web downloads cost euro10 billion,” BusinessWeek, March 17, 2010.

According to WWF Investigators, a bottle of “tiger-bone wine” sold in Western China on the border of Burma/Myanmar sold in 2008 for $88.

The wine is believed to give the drinker increase health.

Source:  AFP, “Myanmar a gateway for wildlife trade to China: report,” Google News, March 16, 2010.

According to environmental groups, up to 73 million sharks are believed to be killed each year. The sharks are killed primarily for its fins to be used in soups, with most of the trade heading to China.

Source:  Associated Press, “Shark protection plan defeated,” MSNBC, March 16, 2010.

According to international organizations, between 2006 and 2009 around 1,500 Rhino Horns were illegally traded.

Source:  Robyn Dixon, “Surge in rhino poaching devastates African populations,” Los Angeles Times, March 16, 2010.

In 2009, 122 rhinos were killed by poachers in South Africa.

Source:  Robyn Dixon, “Surge in rhino poaching devastates African populations,” Los Angeles Times, March 16, 2010.

About $1 Billion is paid in bribes each year in Russia to secure admission requirements and passage of exams.

Source:  Peter Finn, “Taking On Russia’s Ubiquitous Bribery,” Washington Post, July  14, 2008.

The total dollar amount in losses to Internet Fraud in 2009 was $559.7 Million, according to the FBI.  The losses in 2009 was more than doubled the losses of $264.6 Million in 2008.

There were 336,655 total complaints reported to the FBI in 2009, an increase of 22 percent from the previous year.

16 percent of all complaints and the most reported scam involved scammers pretending to be associated with the FBI in order to gain access to information from victims.

Source: “Reported cyberfraud losses double in 2009: FBI,” Reuters, March 12, 2010.

Customs officials in Japan seized 1.04 million counterfeit goods items in 2009, according to Finance Ministry. The total amount seized was up 10.6 percent from the previous year.

86 percent of the counterfeit items originated from China, followed by 6 percent from South Korea.

The most counterfeited good was counterfeit purses, which accounted for 55 percent of all goods seized.

Source:  “Pirated goods halted by customs in 2009 top 1 million,” Japan Today, March 13, 2010.

An estimated 3,000 tons of wildlife meat is consumed and exported into China from Vietnam each year.

Source:  “Over 2 tons of wildlife and animal bones seized,” VietNam Net, March 11, 2010.

More than 8 percent of the world’s population of elephants are being killed each year due to poaching, according to a conservation biologist at the University of Washington.

Source:  Sandi Doughton, “Sale of elephant tusk stockpiles may encourage poaching, experts worry,” Seattle Times, March 11, 2010.