Global CrimeGangs and Kidnapping

& Endangered Species Trafficking

Global Issues Payne Pages 264-266

Brian Hayward and Frederic Apiou

Global Issues Project

Young People between the ages of sixteen and twenty four tend to commit most of the crimes especially in densely populated areas.

When Parents abandon their Children because of poverty and decline in social services, Child Become vulnerable to gangs.

Gang violence threatens peace and security, increases human rights violations, and impedes economic development.

Kidnapping is often an integral component of gang violence. Most Kidnappings were wealthy individuals who could arrange paying large ransoms. Terrorists use it to spread fear.

Criminal Gangs and Kidnapping

Endangered Species-Animals and plants vulnerable to extinction.

Anything Can be Traded Regardlesss of long term consequences for the environment.

Figuring out just how much is made from trafficking endangered species is difficult.

Hoodia Plants in Diet pills, to Parrots, Elephant tusk, tiger bones, shark fins, Australian palm cockatoos, rhinoceros, Saiga antelopes, and many other medicinal plants are harvested and traded illegally.

Wild bird conservation Act-Bans imports of all wild-caught threatened parrots listed in CITES.CITES means Convention on International Trade in endangered Species.

ILLEGAL TRADE IN ENDANGERED ANIMALS AND PLANTS

Global crime is intricately intertwined with revolutionary technological, financial, communications, economic, cultural, and political changes that characterize Globalization.

UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime.Global agreement aimed at reducing crime through global cooperation.

Please Report Crimes to the police as Concerned Citizens.

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