Bad Guys Species and Habitats Whale Hunting Japan

Bad Guys Species and Habitats

Whale Hunting- Japan �Makoto Ito Managing director of Kyodo Senpaku Co. The company that runs the annual Antarctic hunt. �Nisshin Maru: The main Japanese Whaling Ship. Is the largest ship of the Japanese whaling fleet. The ship is ran by ‘research leader’Shigetoshi Nishiwaki.

Palmoil �Salomon Gutt- Manager of Palmeras de los. This company has destroyed most of the forests in Ecuador in order to make room for Palm plantations. Ahmad Zubir Murshid. Manager of Sime Darby. One of the biggest palm oil producers in the World situated in Malaysia and Indonesia.

Logging-Amazon �JBS, Bertin The worlds biggest beef producer. Deforesting in order to create land for Cattle faming. �Julio Bonizzi- Marfrig group The third biggest food processing company. They own- 31 slaughter plants, 22 of which are in brazil. Julio Bonizzi is Marfrigs plant manager.

Ivory Trade Siyam Siewe- Managing director of Ports authority. Siyam was jailed for the organisation and distribution of Ivory in Tanzania.

Energy/Oil �Beckers, Executive Director-TEN-T Executive Agency �Mrs Ruengvarayudh Pradittasane- Manager of the Electricity generating Authority, Thailand.

Vaquita �The National Aquaculture and Fisheries Commission Ramon Corral Avila (right)- The manager of the commision.

Bush meat SIBAF- Largest logging company in Kika. A report shows that small scale hunters sold bush meat directly to this company. This company consumed 80 -100 animal a day. ‘The products were not only imported for personal consumption, but were part of a lucrative organised trade. ’

Zoos/Captavity �Phucket Zoo, Thailand General manger: Martin Carpenter The zoo has been accused of smuggling Orang-utans and other wild animals. � Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (USA) Former Ringling employees that left the circus in 2006 and 2007 describe violent beatings as well as the routine abuse of elephants.

The Pet Trade � The illegal wildlife trade is worth $10 billion to $20 billion a year. � Notable trade hubs of the wildlife trade include Savarnahhumi International airport in Bangkok offer smugglers direct jet service to Europe, the middle east , north America and Africa.

Tourism ‘The illegal wildlife trade has expanded into many tourist attractions such as phucket and Ko Samui’