AR-News: (UK/US) Trade goes off the scale

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ASCOTTISH businessman is found dead, slumped over the wheel of a rented
car near the city of Little Rock in the United States, surrounded by a
pool of vomit. Half-a-mile away an electrician stumbles upon a wooden box
abandoned beside the highway - containing four of the deadliest snakes in
the world...

It sounds like the opening to a Quentin Tarantino film. 
...
The trade in selling wild animals and plants is worth billions. Most of
that trade is legal, with dealers such as Exotic Reptiles Jungle
advertising a range of venomous snakes for less than £100 each, including
comparatively less dangerous snakes such as pythons and rattlesnakes.

But, according to the wildlife trade monitoring network Traffic
International, a "significant portion" of it is not.

And with collectors prepared to pay "tens of thousands of pounds" for a
single deadly snake, and poverty-stricken locals in countries where the
creatures are native, such as Africa and India, desperate to make a
living, it is not hard to see why the trade is estimated to be second only
to illegal drugs trafficking in terms of profit. 

full story:
http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=595392004

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