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In Somalia, the terrorist group al-Shabaab take in at least 38 million a year by felling trees illegally and burning them into charcoal.
在索马里，恐怖组织伊斯兰青年党通过非法伐树及将其烧成木炭一年至少可获利380万美元。
The activity is their largest source of cash.
这是该组织最大的现金来源。
In Africa as a whole, the illegal charcoal trade—the main cooking fuel—most likely brings in more money than the illegal drug trade.
总的来说，在以木炭作为主要木炭染料的非洲，非法木炭交易要比违禁药品交易赚钱更多。
Taken together, all types of environmental crime—from smuggling elephant tusks to China to illegal dumping of toxic waste—generates as much as 213 billion for unsavory characters around the world.
总的来说，所有的环境犯罪，从走私象牙到中国，到非法倾倒有毒废物，为世界上这些令人讨厌的环境犯罪者带去了多达2130亿美元的非法收入。
That's according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme and Interpol.
这发表在联合国环境规划署和国际刑事警察组织的一份新报告上。
The biggest chunk of that sum comes from forest crime—illicitly-cut-down rare timber, like teak, and other illegally harvested trees lost as exported pulp or wood chips.
这些总金额中最大的一部分来自森林犯罪，非法砍伐如刺槐等的稀有木材，或者非法毁坏树木切割作为纸浆或木屑出口。
Then there's the smuggling of wildlife, dead or alive.
还有无论死活，野生生物的走私。
Poached ivory fetches at least 165 million a year in Asia while our closest living relatives—great apes like chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans—are being kidnapped from the wild and sold to private collectors.
不法分子在亚洲非法猎取的象牙一年至少可以赚取1.65亿美元，然而我们的近亲黑猩猩、大猩猩和红毛猩猩等在野外被诱拐然后被卖给私人收藏家。
But environmental crime can be fought.
但是我们打响环境犯罪的战争。
For example, Brazil has dramatically reduced tree cutting in the Amazon with better enforcement, and east Africa has stepped up its ivory busts.
例如，巴西凭借强有力的法律极大的减少了亚马逊地区的树木砍伐。而东非也加速了它的象牙交易的破产。
And as consumers, we all can help curb crime by cutting the demand for these goods. Just say no.
作为消费者，我们能做的就是通过削减对这些事物的需求来控制犯罪，只需你一句不即可。
