WILDLIFE SMUGGLER'S BLUES.While habitat loss threatens the existence of species all over the world, illegal poaching poaching: see cooking. poses an additional threat to animals in Asia, where large-scale smuggling smuggling, illegal transport across state or national boundaries of goods or persons liable to customs or to prohibition. Smuggling has been carried on in nearly all nations and has occasionally been adopted as an instrument of national policy, as by Great Britain of pelts and animal parts for Chinese medicine amounts to a billion-dollar industry (see "Over the Counter Wildlife," Currents, July/August 1997). But this year, tigers, pandas, elephants and leopards have found a friend in the Chinese government Ever since Republic of China founded in January 1st, 1912, China has had several regional and national governments. List
A new anti-smuggling bureau in China recently arrested the operators of a large-scale illegal animal operation. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Hu Pan of the Environment News Service, officials of the bureau confiscated con·fis·cate tr.v. con·fis·cat·ed, con·fis·cat·ing, con·fis·cates 1. To seize (private property) for the public treasury. 2. To seize by or as if by authority. See Synonyms at appropriate. adj. over 2,000 wildlife skins in the largest crackdown on smugglers since 1949. China's new enforcement efforts are crucial if the highly endangered Asian tiger (already nearly extinct in China itself) is to be saved. Joshua Ginsberg of the Wildlife Conservation Society credits progress made against poachers to "better laws and enforcement in consumer countries." CONTACT: Wildlife Conservation Society, 185th Street and Southern Boulevard, Bronx, NY 10460/(718)220-5100. |
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