Animal and Wildlife Trafficking and Smuggling: $20 Billion

Posted on May 10, 2008
Filed Under Black Market Index, environmental goods |

The WWF (formerly known as the World Wildlife Fund) has estimated that animal and wildlife trafficking to be worth between $15 billion and $25 billion a year.

Source: Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark, “Poaching for Bin Laden,” Guardian, May 5, 2007, (accessed: May 7, 2007).

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