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16 Nw. J. Int'l L. & Bus. 497 (1995-1996)
Poachers, Tigers, and Bears...Oh My--Asia's Illegal Wildlife Trade

handle is hein.journals/nwjilb16 and id is 509 raw text is: COMMENTS Poachers, Tigers and Bears ... Oh My! Asia's Illegal Wildlife Trade Joonmoo Lee I. INTRODUCTION The international trade of wild animals and wildlife-related prod- ucts is a major industry that is growing at a rapid pace. In 1992, ac- cording to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the international wildlife trade was a $5 billion-a-year industry with as much as 25% of it being illegal. That is, wild animals were illegally killed and traded either whole or in parts with an annual turnover of nearly $1.25 billion.' By 1993, however, Traffic International, which monitors wildlife traffick- ing for the United Nations, reported that illegal trade alone had gen- erated $5 billion to $10 billion in one year. This makes the illegal wildlife trade the third largest illegal trade in the world after drugs and arms.2 In the United States, the world's largest importer of wild- life and wildlife products, protected plants and animals are second only to drugs among illegal items smuggled into the country.3 In most cases, what makes the trade illegal is that the animals or plants being traded are endangered. Such trade is either prohibited entirely or restricted to regulated, seasonal hunting and trading. The 1 Michael Hanback, Poaching: Crime in Our Wilderness, Part 1, OUTDOOR LIFE, October 1992, at 58. 2 Uli Schmetzer, Phasing Out Animal Abuse, THm HousToN CHRONICLE, Oct. 3, 1993, at 25. 3 Robert McClure, 12-Day Conference to Combat Trade in Endangered Species, SUN-SErmN- NEL, Nov. 6, 1994, at 1A.

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