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.
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.
530 to 710 tonnes of cocaine enter the US through Mexico each year
Source: The Economist, “Marching as to war,” February 2, 2008.
Drugs contribute roughly 4 percent of Mexico’s GDP
Source: The Economist, “Marching as to war,” February 2, 2008, pg. 45.
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.
3 million illegal cbale subscribers in the Phillippines
Source: Lenie Lectura, Losses from cable-TV piracy may hit P7B in ’08 with only 2% growth in paying subscribers, Business Mirror.
75.5 percent of Pay TV viewers use illegal connections in Egypt
Source: AME Info, May 20, 2008.
