Crime syndicates smuggling wildlife
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It could be ivory concealed in a container, cans of caviar in a suitcase or baby chimpanzees in a crate. The smuggling of wildlife goods is a low-risk, high-profit enterprise proving increasingly attractive to crime syndicates.
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The "Shadow Wolves" is the name of a group of U.S. Customs officers who are helping in the fight against illegal migration and drug trafficking.
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The bald eagle is out of the woods but other birds of prey are in trouble.
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By Rich Landers, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  May 31--Trouble is stirring where only the deer, elk and sportsmen once roamed.   Washington's wildlife recreation lands have been managed in decent harmony with hunters and fishermen over the past seven decades.
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With monitor lizards, snakes, and  bats prowling their parks, residents of tropical Singapore are  no strangers to the occasional animal ambush.
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Some stretch limousine businesses in the UK are a front for organised crime, senior police officers say.
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Criminals do not normally monitor commodities markets, but high metals prices have grabbed their attention, fueling more thefts of copper wire and other items whose metal components can be sold for scrap.
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ACCOMPONG TOWN, Jamaica -- High above the serpentine valleys and vine-tangled trails of this mountainous refuge, runaway slaves could spot approaching bounty hunters and soldiers in time to ambush all comers.
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It is one of the oldest conflicts between man and beast: farmers killing marauders such as wolves, lynxes, lions and leopards to defend their livestock from the predators.
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SILVERBELL, Ariz. -- Among the statuesque saguaro cactuses in the desert south of this old mining town lies the remnant of a crime scene that federal authorities say signals a troubling and escalated level of violence associated with the human smuggling trade.
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Security experts in Belfast estimate that paramilitary groups reap millions each year with a mix of smuggling and counterfeiting, extortion and racketeering and drug trafficking in the British-ruled province.
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A surge in demand for exotic freshwater turtles and tortoises in Southeast Asia is fuelling rampant illegal trade in the animals in Indonesia, wildlife experts warned Tuesday.
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The fate of some of the world's animals and plants may be decided at a conference on wildlife trade.
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Move follows series of suspicious deaths.
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By Craig Medred, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Sep. 24--SANDPOINT, Idaho -- The war on predators is being waged on a distinctly different front here.
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Behind the glitzy playgrounds of Cancun is a growing drug war, fueled by widespread police corruption, the partial disruption of once-popular trafficking routes through Haiti and a sudden turf battle between two of the country's main drug gangs.
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More than three dozen people have been arrested in connection with a ring suspected of smuggling $35 million in Colombian heroin to New York and New Jersey through Mexico.