Millions of seirs of $ 29m illegally smuggle, get studies

Canadian researchers found that about five million smuggled cires were seized by the authorities over a period of 10 years, warning that it is only a “snow tip” in an illegal trade that is likely to be very large in the scale.

To track how widespread the issue is, researchers at the University of British Columbia consider the public seizure report and news stories shared between 2010 and 2021, with about 300 visits to about 300 seizures including 62 different countries.

Overall, the five million seized seizures were estimated at $ 29 million ($ 21 million US), said that he said that he said A study recently published conservation biology,

Dried ceires are often sought for use in traditional medicine. The most common destinations for them are China and Hong Kong, found in studies, but they can be purchased in Canada online and in traditional medicine stores.

Because the conservative estimates of the study are prepared only from public records, “The actual measure of illegal sehors business will be huge,” Sarah foster, lead writer and a researcher of UBC Institute for the Ocean and Fisheries said, who are also leading the program in Project Sehors, a maritime protection organization.

While environment and climate change, according to a statement by Canada, the publicly reported visits to the study were not in Canada, 19 “enforcement files” have been opened since 2020. This includes 15 in the Pacific region, “mainly contains dried seahore or sehore-based products (eg, traditional medicines or supplements).”

A complicated network

The study also presented details on the methods of smuggling and complexity of trafficking routes, said Foster said.

He said that most of the Sehors seizures included passenger goods in airports, but the largest versions were transferred by the ship. In C Cargos, they often traded with other wildlife, such as penguins, ivory, pangolin scales, sea cucumbers and sharks feathers.

“So in preparing strategies to find and flagged illegal sehors trade, the authorities will also help address the issue for other maritime and other wildlife species,” Foster said.

In an abnormal seizure recorded in Vietnam, Sehorus appears from Peru; But when the authorities saw in the species, they found that they were originally from West Africa.

He said, “These seals West Africa, (from) Peru, (and) on their way to Vietnam, eventually went to the mainland to end in China,” she said.

To combat this global trade, governments need to work together to share information about how to catch smugglers and share strategies, foster said. And even more important, he said, guards against threat to species and biodiversity.

Wave effect of trade

A compromise signed by 183 countries, including Canada, can be legally traded under the rules mentioned by the convention of international trade in the endangered species of wild organisms and cits.

Exporters require a permit, proving that their business is monitored, legally sour and does not damage the population.

“Those permits are very, very difficult,” Max Valentine said, illegal fishing campaign director and transparency for Ocean, an international advocacy organization for Ocean, for ocean protection.

“Most of this illegal trade (from) are people who are not catching them with permits or with rules in place.”

Currently, two sehors species are considered severely endangered, and other 13 are considered unsafe to extinct. International Union for Protection of Nature,

Valentine said that illegal harvesting has serious consequences not only on the Sehors population, but also as a whole underwater environment.

Cehors are usually caught by below trolling, using large, weighed mesh dragged on the floor of the–Valentine, which is widely considered one of the most devastating fishing practices on the planet. ”

“(Jab) rip all the habitat they come in contact,” he said. “As long as they pulled out these nets from the water, everything is already dead. So we have lost all of that biomass, all those creatures from the environment.”

He said that the food chain is also interrupted by taking the sehors out of the environment, he said, “Dear the population feeded the population, and also those who eat them.

Emperor

Valentine said that when she first heard about the study of this “Bombshell” Sehorus smuggling, she was “shocked and frightening.”

“To know that these species have such a destructive crop, illegal crop … really disappointing.”

By highlighting the face of Cehors, the authors of the study say they hope that they can pay attention to the broader threats faced by marine life.

Foster said, “People actually love Sehors, they catch people’s imagination.” “We are fond of saying, we will save the seas by saving the sewers.”