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Jeremy McBride says illegal wildlife trade is worth about $20bn yearly

Joe Rogan Experience · Joe Rogan Experience #2536 - Eric Goode & Jeremy McBride · August 6, 2026
Jeremy McBride says illegal wildlife trade is worth about $20bn yearly
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Joe Rogan Experience #2536 - Eric Goode & Jeremy McBride
"What most people don't know is illegal wildlife trafficking represents about a 20 billion year industry. It's kind of under reportported actually, uh only after guns, drugs, and human trafficking. And what's really interesting about that is it's there's there's a convergence of all of it."
Jeremy McBride says illegal wildlife trafficking is a roughly $20bn-a-year industry, ranking behind firearms, narcotics and human trafficking. He argues it often overlaps with other criminal activity, including drugs and weapons smuggling.
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