smuggling
Two men are currently facing a criminal trial in Italy for allegedly poaching and smuggling some of the world’s most threatened cacti from Chile’s Atacama Desert into Europe. The public prosecutor of Ancona accuses Andrea Piombetti and Mattia Cresentini of importing and exporting endangered cacti without the required permits. Piombetti, in particular, is alleged to have uprooted more than 900 cacti himself from their natural habitat during repeated trips to Chile. This is illegal under Italian laws that apply the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (...
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Large volumes of climate-warming gases are being smuggled into Europe from China and Turkey, a new investigation has found. The illegal trafficking is compromising the global push to phase them out, a report by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) said this week. These hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), described by the EIA as “super-pollutant”, are a group of synthetic gases that are predominantly used for cooling and refrigeration. Although they do not damage the ozone layer like other banned refrigerants, their impact on global warming can be up to thousands of times greater th...
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