David Hume III

Insatiable David Hume III

In the early 1980s, the ideal low-risk, high-profit criminal enterprise emerged. It, like other illicit trafficking schemes, required a politically and economically unstable environment; corruption was the key driver for its success. Trafficking in endangered wildlife (flora and fauna) also introduced diseases; coronavirus being the most destructive to humans. In the last 50 years, Earth's wildlife population decreased by over 70%, but the demand for endangered species soared. The illegal, inhumane global wildlife trade, that includes the illicit pet and timber trades, has become the third most profitable form of trafficking, gaining its participants over $129 billion tax-free dollars a year, while pushing our World's endangered wildlife to extinction.