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• But alongside legal trade in wildlife, there’s a dark twin – illegal trading of wildlife.
• In our new research, we probed the dark web – the secretive section of the internet deliberately set up out of view of search engines.
• These were almost entirely plants and fungi with psychoactive effects, indicating they are part of the well-known dark web drug trade.
• Why aren’t traders in illegal wildlife using the dark web?

What was being sold on the dark web?

• We found over 3,000 advertisements selling wildlife species on dark web marketplaces between 2014 and 2020.
• Plants made up most of the species being sold, with many coming from Central and Southern America.
• We also found 19 species of Psilocybe fungi being sold.

The illegal wildlife trade is hard to stop

• Globally, the wildlife trade is regulated by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
• The number of species traded live outnumbers the regulated trade by at least three times, according to some estimates.
• To date, there have been few effective disincentives to stop traffickers from selling illegal wildlife online.

What can be done?

• Australia and all other nations that have signed up to CITES have a responsibility to keep track of internet-based wildlife trade.
• Since 2019 we have been monitoring the wildlife trade in Australia, drawing data from over 80 websites and forums.
• Adam Toomes receives funding from the Australian Research Council and previously the Centre for Invasive Species Solutions.

• Satisfy your munchies on 420 (April 20) with Mellow Mushroom’s Pretzel Bites served with Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer Cheese - offered with regular or spicy beer cheese - for $4.20!
• View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230418005629/en/
  Satisfy your munchies on 420 (April 20) with Mellow Mushroom’s Pretzel Bites served with Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer Cheese - offered with regular or spicy beer cheese - for $4.20!
• Mellow Mushroom is also elated to offer ashtrays that are available for $4.20 at the Yellow Room , the Mellow Mushroom retail site.
• “Pretzel Bites are our most popular munchie, so in celebration of 420, all Mellow Mushroom locations are offering this popular menu item for $4.20 all day long,” says Anne Mejia, VP Brand Development, Mellow Mushroom.

• View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230411005332/en/
  Does the SEC's new PVP disclosure improve shareholders' ability to assess pay-for-performance alignment?
• “The new PVP disclosure would appear to support shareholders’ consistent strong support for Say on Pay over the past 12 years,” said Pay Governance Managing Partner and study co-author Ira Kay.
• “We developed a comprehensive methodology to assess the degree of alignment,” said Partner and study co-author Mike Kesner.
• The firm also has strategic affiliate relationships with Pay Governance Japan and Pay Governance Korea.

• One in every 140 programmatic impressions had serious security or quality violations, a 104% increase in quality violations and nearly doubling security violations over both 2020 and 2021.
• For the worst-performer of the group, 1 in every 330 impressions was a misleading claim, which was far more than the others.
• NEW YORK, March 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Confiant, the Cybersecurity industry leader for ad tech, released its 2023 Malvertising & Ad Quality index (MAQ) industry benchmark report based on 2022 annualized data.
• The MAQ reports that overall ad security violations nearly doubled in 2022, being the highest since 2019, and represented a three year high point in malvertising attacks.