Authorities seized 2,700 cubic meters of illegally logged wood in Cambodia in 2009, up 400 cubic meters from 2008.

From 2006 till 2009, the Ministry of Agriculture has seized more than 11,000 chainsaws from illegal loggers and destroyed over 3,000 of them.

In addition, about 2,000 kilograms of dead and alive animals were confiscated from wildlife traffickers in Cambodia in 2009.

Source:  Khouth Sophakchakrya, “Illegal logging and wildlife trafficking prosecutions up,”Phnom Penh Post, January 7, 2010.

214 elephants were killed by poachers in Kenya in 2009, up from 47 elephants killed in 2007.

Source:  AFP, “African countries set for new fight over ivory sales,” Google News, December 22, 2009.

95 percent of all rhino poaching in Africa between 2006 and 2009 occurred in Zimbabwe (235 Rhinos Killed) and South Africa (210 Rhinos Killed).

Source: “‘Global surge’ in rhino poaching,” BBC News, December 1, 2009.

Up to 30,000 dogs are illegally smuggled across borders from Thailand and into Vietnam and Laos to be sold for its meat. The dogs are sold by traffickers for an average of $10 a dog, thus creating an estimated $3.6 Million market.

Source:  Patrick Winn, “The Dog Meat Mafia: Corruption,” GlobalPost, November 27, 2009.

According to the US State Department, between 2 to 5 million wild birds are illegally trafficked each year.  The birds include hummingbirds, eagles and parrots.

Source:  Charles Bergman, “Wildlife Trafficking,” Smithsonian Magazine, December 2009.

According to the WWF, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Thailand are the three top countries in 2009 that were involved in the selling of elephant ivory.

Source: “Worry over ivory trade increase,” WWF, November 17, 2009.

Due to illegal poaching activities, the population of wild Malaysian Tigers are estimated to be under 500. In the 1950s, there were an estimated 3,000 tigers in the wild.

Source:  AFP, “Malaysia to double tiger population by next year: govt,” Yahoo News, November 5, 2009.

100,000 pangolins are killed each year in order to meet the demand for the animals in China.

Pangolins are believed to help blood circulation problems and skin conditions.

Source:  Rhett Butler, “Laos Emerges as Key Source in Asia’s Illicit Wildlife Trade,” Yale Environment 360, February 26, 2009.

38 million animals are taken from the Amazon Rainforest each year for the purpose of animal trafficking.

Source: Alan Campana, “Animal Investigators: Solving Wildlife Crimes and Saving Endangered Species,” Wilson Center, May 20, 2009.

According to an article by the AFP, around 38,000 African Elephants are killed each year for their tusks.

Source:  AFP, “Ivory traffickers ‘held in C.African Republic’,” Google News, October 5, 2009.