dollar value of illegal wildlife trade and its value relative to other organized illegal trade - ANS - $5 to $20 billion annually. It falls right behind the black marketing of drugs, weapons, and hum... an trafficking. the threats to the United States from illegal wildlife smuggling - ANS - 1. threats to environment 2. national security ( invasive/non invasive species) 3. Habitat destruction (leading threat) 4. Threat to the current bird population 5. disease to humans and other animal species (Bird flu, ebola, mokeypox) who regulates the legal importation of birds? - ANS - the Fish and Wildlife Service (true or false question) methods used by wildlife smugglers - ANS - - USPS, FedEx, DHL (small % of shipments actually inspected) - Secret compartments - Illegal species mixed with legal species - Packaged in other misleading containers, such as plastic detergent containers - Smuggling of collected eggs on humans in special clothes define CITES and know its purpose - ANS - Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species; an agreement that establishes international controls over trade in wild plant and animal species that are threatened due to excessive commercial exploitation. Only provides the framework for implementation; each party must adopt its own domestic implementation. -appendix 1 = most threatened with extinction -appendix 2= highly controlled -appendix 3= protection in at least one country US version of CITES? - ANS - Endangered Species Act [Show More]
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