Even more importantly, we can work to quash the colonial instinct whenever it rears its ugly head, as it is doing right now in the form of land grabs, illicit financial extraction, and unfair trade deals.
Program participants reduced hours devoted to illicit resource extraction by 20%, and reduced interest in fighting in a short-lived conflict in neighboring Côte d'Ivoire.
Illicit resource extraction and poaching — industries worth up to $213 billion a year — are funneling money to criminals, militias, and (in some high-profile cases) terrorists, according to a joint study by Interpol and the UN's environmental agency (UNEP).
"Extensive use of the Internet," the report says, "now underpins illicit drug synthesis, extraction and distribution, the recruitment and marketing of victims of trafficking in human beings, the facilitation of illegal immigration, the supply of counterfeit commodities, trafficking in endangered species and many other criminal activities".
A solution is necessary to decrease the illicit activity occurring in extraction.
A Moratorium on the Drivers of Deforestation: The government must issue a moratorium for the main drivers of deforestation, which plaintiffs identify to be land grabbing, illicit crops, and illegal resource extraction, until the above-mentioned action plan is issued.
The transfer upwards in the income pyramid of $1 2 trillionon within little more than a generation via rigged markets, lax enforcement by the federal government and illicit conduct makes the wealth extraction by the five Mafia families look like petty pickpocketing.
Data extraction techniques were used to interpret and illicit meaning and gain understanding – this method is based on the work of Corbin & Strauss [ 20] and Rapley [ 21].
Considering ongoing threats in the region from infrastructure development [ 88], oil extraction [ 89], gold mining [ 90, 91], illicit crops [ 36], and the continually advancing agricultural fronts, more carefully situated protected areas and novel land use regulation strategies will be necessary to safeguard substantial amounts of biodiversity.
