Chapter 573 This is not a rescue activity, but a conflict of interests!
"Are you crazy?" Takeda didn't even use honorifics and directly used "you", "You gave me a paragraph of reasons and purposes for protecting animals, and then asked me to suspend the hunting season and arrest the second-ranked contestant.
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"Director Matsumoto, doesn't he know how popular this program is recently? Over 100 million people around the world are watching it, and tens of millions of people in China know that more than 10 million viewers sit in front of the TV or mobile phones every day!"
"This is no longer a small entertainment program led by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department! It is our face, let alone suspicion, even if there is conclusive evidence!"
"No, Mr. Goda." Matsumoto Kiyonaga's tone was very serious, "The words just now are the purpose of Tiangra's external publicity."
The scale of this company is incredible, from the Americas to Europe to Asia, almost all over the world except Antarctica.
They use business as the purpose of protection, purchase hunting licenses all over the world, and carry out a series of legal activities. It is not that wild animals cannot be bought and sold, but must be legal and compliant.
However, legal trade has two major practical problems: first, high taxes and fees, and second, small quantity. Driven by huge profits, these people do not care about cyclical development.
Even during this hunting season, Japanese officials have had contact with Tiangra.
"We have an intersection? Why didn't I know?" Takeda Takeda was dumbfounded.
"This has nothing to do with the Metropolitan Police Department. It is an activity of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. They sold all the black bear carcasses from this hunt to Tiangra. It is normal for Team Leader Goda not to know." Matsumoto Kiyonaga explained.
, "But that doesn't matter."
"Tiangra owns many clubs and auctions, maintains friendly exchanges with TNC (The Nature Conservancy), organizes many activities, and claims that hunting is also a means of ecological protection."
But the only problem is.
"Watch this again." Matsumoto Kiyonaga handed the second video to Takeda Takeda.
The content of this video is relatively simple.
Tiangli was exploded.
An undercover agent attended the International Hunting Club's annual meeting in Reno, Nevada, a trophy-incentive hunt in which wealthy individuals purchased the opportunity to kill large beasts such as elephants, lions, leopards or rhinos.
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Once the incident was revealed, it caused an uproar
This year, Tianusgra suffered a heavy blow. Although it promptly distanced itself from the relationship with its clubs and fired a large number of employees, claiming that it was "outsourcing", "uninformed" and "neglecting supervision", its vitality was still severely damaged.
"Look at this list again.'
Takeda Takeda had already expected it in his heart, and sure enough, he saw Berson Guy on it.
"According to what I have found so far, Berson Guy had joined Tiangra before the incident happened, but the time was very short, less than half a year, and then he was pushed out because of this incident. Later,
Sentenced to a term of imprisonment of up to ten months."
"It is said that someone saw Berson in the third month after the incident, but Tiangla explained that he looked similar, which triggered another wave of public opinion at that time, thinking that it was Tiangla who provided bail."
Takeda Takeda was speechless. He had no idea that the seemingly amiable old man had such rich experience. There are three major illegal trades in the world, the first is drug smuggling, the second is arms smuggling, and the third is
Trafficking in wild animals.
According to data released by the State Council of the United States, wildlife smuggling is second only to drugs and arms, with an annual transaction volume of US$10 billion to US$20 billion.
According to relevant reports, 50,000 primates, 140,000 African ivory tusks, 10 million reptile skins, 15 million mammals, 350 million tropical fish, and more than 100,000 tons of rhino horns are illegally traded around the world every year.
10 billion ugly dollars.
Among them, the annual transaction volume of smuggling endangered animals reaches at least US$2 billion to US$3 billion.
The data given by John Scanlon, the former Secretary-General of the United Nations Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (cites), is that the illegal trade in species listed in cites is worth about 20 billion U.S. dollars every year, but the illegal trade of all wildlife
The annual trade value can reach about 200 billion U.S. dollars.
The amount is astonishing.
These figures undoubtedly prove one thing: the wildlife smuggling trade has formed a complete industrial chain, connecting people of different skin colors and cultures around the world, making it as simple as buying and selling ordinary products.
Robertson: Guy was actually one of them. Even decades later, he changed his appearance and appeared in public in a way that no one expected.
The incident in Tiangra was more than ten years ago, and no one remembers Berson: Guy. Even if they still remember it, the changes of more than ten years make it difficult for people to recognize the high-spirited hunter who he is now.
An old man in his fifties.
Matsumoto Kiyonaga doesn’t know whether Tiangra is innocent or whether supervision is really poor, but Berson Guy, this is definitely not a good person!
Matsumoto Kiyonaga even suspected that Tiangra itself was not clean at all. Perhaps the tail-cutting was just to convert a group of subordinates from the bright side to the dark side.
But there is no evidence, Matsumoto Kiyonaga just thinks about it.
Unfortunately, Matsumoto Kiyonaga and Takeda Takeda lacked some insight. If they could reverse the name of tianusgra, it would be gratianus.
Gratian, the eldest son of Emperor Valentinian I in the western part of the Roman Empire, was made Augustus by his father at the age of 8. His teacher was the poet Decimus Magnus Ausonius.
He loved hunting all his life. It was not only a hobby, but also a life. In the end, he lost his empire because of it. "But, what does this have to do with Dolphin Bay?" After talking for a long time, Takeda still didn't understand.
Even if Berson really had a lot of black material, why should he be arrested? Isn't it better to turn a blind eye?
It's better to leave things like messengers of justice to others and have nothing to do with them.
Matsumoto Kiyonaga immediately gritted his teeth: "Because these are the people who are helping Richard! We have been unable to catch them!
Matsumoto Kiyonaga finally figured it out.
Obviously, this matter was done by Berson and the gang behind him.
A guy who started out as a wild animal, how could he forget it after having tasted the benefits?
"Their ultimate goal is to make us suffer international condemnation and have to give up catching dolphins under the pressure of public opinion. Then, a large number of wild dolphins that are not caught will eventually become theirs!"
Matsumoto Kiyoshi made a strong statement, but he was kept in the dark, and Richard was also deceived.
Interests depend on supply and demand.
Will the demand disappear if no one catches it?
Impossible, the demand will only become stronger and the price of dolphins will be even higher!
This group of animal dealers are focused on this, just like merchants slandering the quality of their peers' products, they want to monopolize this market!
What Taiji Town has to face is not a rescue operation at all, but a group of sharks that smell blood, a group of more greedy monsters.
This is clearly a competition for interests!
"We must protect the interests of Taiji Town and cannot let them succeed!"
"Takeda Takeda, please, even if the hunting season is not suspended, Berson must be arrested and all the people behind them must be found!