It's the fourth largest criminal enterprise after drugs, human trafficking, and counterfeiting.
- It's growing faster than global GNP.
- Money lost from it is 10,000 times greater than international agencies fighting it.
- It's risen by 5-7% in the past ten years.
- Elephant and rhino slaughter has grown more than 25% a year over the last decade.
- Wildlife crime and trafficking is growing fastest is Africa. The report says that "more than one quarter of the world's population has been killed in a decade."