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#smugglers charge $550 to move #migrants away from Trump’s America, chart @economics https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-11/smugglers-are-charging-550-to-move-migrants-away-from-the-us
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Instead of docking at a major #port where they can be tracked, #russian #oil tankers sometimes transfer their #cargo in international waters, much like drug #smugglers. By the time the oil reaches its final buyer, its origins have been scrubbed clean.
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First, #rats were trained to sniff out #landmines and #tuberculosis. Now, they're detecting #wildlife #smugglers
https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/rats-sniff-out-wildlife-smugglers
Good Good Good · 'Vest-wearing' giant pouched rats detect smuggled pangolin scales and elephant tusks in illegal wildlife trade
#GUWAHATI : As #India refocuses on #tiger #conservation after the #deaths of 30 big cats in the first two months of 2023, a challenge that daunts the administrators is #timber #smuggling .
On Tuesday, officials in India’s easternmost #Changlang district in #ArunachalPradesh #discovered that the timber #smugglers had managed to build a #kutcha road in & around the #CoreArea of #Namdapha #NationalPark & #TigerReserve.
New Indian ExpressTimber smugglers build road inside Arunachal tiger reserve
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Speaking of the #Solway, I made a series of films for work about #Smugglers and their place in #Galloway #history .
If you like a bit of swashbuckling then this might entertain.
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The Solway Smugglers: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZywkQyl80s52NKymwkrwmEn4AcvzGrjH