Pacific Standard – “Over the last 10 years, the poaching and trafficking of animal products has become the fourth-highest-grossing crime in the world. But because wildlife crime is not bound by national borders and each country has its own rules and ideas, its management and policing has become unwieldy at best…Interpol estimates that wildlife crime—which includes poaching, trafficking, and a growing black market for animal goods—could be a $30 billion industry, driven in part by multinational crime syndicates. Over the last 10 years, the poaching and trafficking of animal products has become the fourth-highest-grossing crime in the world, behind the narcotics trade, counterfeiting, and human trafficking. And, much like those crimes, because wildlife crime is not bound by national borders and each country has its own rules and ideas, its management and policing has become unwieldy at best. With the proper permits, hunting polar bears isn’t illegal in Canada, but officials like Jordan are in desperate need of a way to track pelts as they move out of the Arctic, so they can catch traffickers and distinguish between which pelts were traded lawfully and which were not…”