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    Giant crackdown against wildlife crime in 92 countries

    Giant crackdown against wildlife crime in 92 countries

    This is great news.

    Thousands of live animals along with tons of meat, ivory, pangolin scales and timber were seized in a monthlong global crackdown on the illegal wildlife trade that Interpol said exposed the international reach of traffickers.

    The live animals recovered in the stings included turtles in Malaysia and parrots in Mexico. Canada intercepted 18 tons of eel meat arriving from Asia. Those arrested included two flight attendants in Los Angeles and a man in Israel whose house was raided after he posted a hunting photograph on social media.



    Operation Thunderstorm, involving 92 countries, yielded seizures worth millions of dollars during May, Interpol said Wednesday.


    “The results are spectacular,” said Sheldon Jordan, Canada’s director general of wildlife enforcement.
    Acknowledging the magnitude of the problem, Jordan said global wildlife crime is worth about $150 billion annually and is fourth in value among illegal global trades behind drugs, counterfeiting and human trafficking.


    Criminal syndicates that smuggle flora and fauna often take advantage of porous borders and corrupt officials, transporting illicit cargo at an industrial scale.


    The Thunderstorm swoop included the confiscation of 8 tons of pangolin scales, half of which was found by Vietnamese authorities on a ship from Africa.


    Africa’s four species of pangolins are under increasing pressure from poachers because of the decimation of the four species in Asia, where pangolin scales are used in traditional medicine.


    A total of 43 tons of contraband meat — including bear, elephant, crocodile, whale and zebra — 1.3 tons of elephant ivory, 27,000 reptiles, about 4,000 birds, 48 live primates, 14 big cats and two polar bear carcasses were also seized. Several tons of wood and timber were also seized.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post

    Behind the scenes there are foot soldiers just trying to make a living which will continue to fuel the supply for other kingpins but this was a great start.

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    Quote Originally Posted by donttread View Post
    Behind the scenes there are foot soldiers just trying to make a living which will continue to fuel the supply for other kingpins but this was a great start.
    There are park rangers and others who have been murdered, i.e., hit off, who were working to protect parks and species. All of those involved inside the wildlife trade should be considered as accomplices to such crimes. It does not matter what part they played. It is regarded by some to be one big crime ring, as whole species and herds have been decimated, as someone might pay to enjoy a zoo with a few of that species left, if those species are lucky enough to last. There are dogs being hung on hooks and skinned alive in some nations, rabbits with their hair pulled off for fur.

    Why has testing on animals continued right inside of America? Why are perfectly healthy cats and dogs and other animals taken to shelters euthanized when there is plenty of money for everything else it seems? Cat should not be taken to shelters! Who are the people who handle budgets? Who are the people who write laws against animals, while the Creator of the Earth must weep for each one destroyed by such reckless callousness! When man was created after the animal kingdom was established, who has made off well, but has left the land languishing for want of a better word, genocide, to where Sekhmet's cats have suffered extinctions!

    How the animal kingdom has been persecuted in way too many places! Animals have rights. They have feelings and sentiments of their own. They have families, but it is only mankind who deserves to live (?), although it was the first man Adam who named them all, both scientific and personal names. How many wild horses and other species slaughtered on public or private lands of who really owns the land? God does! Man has just borrowed, but thinks he has a right to destroy what doesn't match his shallow surmising about what makes life, and life more abundant. Bears and wolves put into the status of "delete" by some so they insult Anubis. Who signs for such monetized shallow arrangements?
    Plant farms and animal sanctuaries with just compensation: Genesis 1:29-30, 2-3, Lev. 24:18-22, Psalm 50, Isaiah 1, 11:6-9, 65, 66, Daniel 1, Hosea 2:18, Revelation 20-22.

    Creation of horses: Zechariah 6:1-8, 14:20. Wild Horses, burros persecuted, parted out in violation of Public Law 92-195:
    https://twitter.com/WildHorseEdu

    Jesus was a Vegetarian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx6J6jh1Dzo

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