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Transnational crime: a mammoth problem
Posted By Anthony Bergin on May 8, 2013 @ 12:30
… have benefited from the globalisation process, and the technologies it provides, to operate across borders, creating new linkages between groups to maximise financial profit, while minimising the risks of being caught. They’re often formed like agile businesses, have no desire to become involved in the use of physical force just for the sake of it, and are highly adept at reshaping themselves to fit the illicit economies that they’re servicing. The groups are highly mobile, flexible and operate in multiple jurisdictions and criminal sectors, exploiting legislative loopholes where they exist, and are aided by the illicit use of the internet.
The Ministers of the Economic Community of Central African States recently called on ivory consuming countries to take drastic measures to deter consumers and urged the poachers’ countries of origin to support affected countries in combating poaching. They’ve agreed to mobilise joint military operations to protect savannah elephants.
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[1] wrote on The Strategist: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-90-billion-question-transnational-organized-crime-in-our-region/
[2] Transnational Organized Crime in East Asia and the Pacific,: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/frontpage/2013/April/first-comprehensive-unodc-study-on-transnational-organized-crime-threats-in-east-asia-and-the-pacific.html?ref=fs1
[3] extensively documented: http://www.grida.no/publications/rr/elephants/
[4] Image: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/large-scale-ivory-seizures_67321.jpg
[5] agreed to mobilise joint military operations: http://www.cbfp.org/news_en/items/ECCAS-LAB-EN.html
[6] discussed the dangers to stability and rule of law from the illegal trade of natural resources: http://www.traffic.org/home/2012/9/25/un-recognizes-wildlife-crime-as-threat-to-rule-of-law.html
[7] argued last year: http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/11/08/u-s-pursues-global-strategy-to-end-trafficking-in-wildlife/
[8] highlighted the importance of coordinating enforcement support: http://biodiversity-l.iisd.org/guest-articles/cites-cop16-bangkok-2013-a-%E2%80%98watershed-moment%E2%80%99-for-combating-wildlife-crime/
[9] I've argued recently: http://www.aspi.org.au/pdf/Australia_can_do_more_against_blood_ivory_trade.pdf
[10] taking up the issue with the African Union: https://www.aspi.org.au/opinion/australia-can-do-more-against-blood-ivory-trade
[11] inaugural Aus-Africa Dialogue: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/announcing-the-first-australia-africa-leadership-dialogue/
[12] GRIDA: http://www.grida.no/graphicslib/detail/large-scale-ivory-seizures_6732