The most illegally trafficked animal globally is often overlooked — and you can have a role in making its hardship known.
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Jeremy Clarkson's motor show The Grand Tour has become the most illegally downloaded show in history, according to newly released figures.
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The staggering number makes it "the most illegally downloaded program ever," even more than "Game of Thrones," Chris Elkins, Muso's chief commercial officer, told the Mail.
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One story that touched my heart is the plight of the Pangolin, a little known creature that is the most illegally trafficked mammal in the world.
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Story at a glance A scaly animal that is one of Asia's most illegally trafficked mammals may have spread the coronavirus to humans, according to a Chinese university.
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The Grand Tour is still early in its first season, but the Amazon-streamed show is already setting records for most illegally downloaded, according to the Daily Mail.
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According to ZSL, many conservationists believe pangolins are the most illegally trafficked mammal in the world, with an estimated 300 pangolins being poached from the wild each day.
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It follows their feature film debut, 100 Bloody Acres in 2012, which has the dubious honour of being one of the most illegally downloaded movies in Australia at the time.
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They are also considered the world's most illegally trafficked animals, and a lot of people who really couldn't give a rat's ass whether they go extinct or not sure do love to eat them.
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It is an innovative attempt to address one of the knottiest problems facing industrial miners around the world and the first initiative of its kind in Congo, where up to 2 million people mine with rudimentary tools, most illegally and in dangerous conditions.
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When NBC decided not to renew "Hannibal" for a fourth season — a show on which I served as executive producer — it wasn't much of a leap to connect its fate with the fact that the show was ranked as the fifth-most illegally downloaded show in 85033.
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According to copyright infringement tracking site Excipio, the film was shared over 30 million times via torrent sites and was the most illegally downloaded film of 2014.
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The film release was expanded to over 1,100 locations on November 8, 2013. In 2014, 12 Years a Slave was the 10th most-illegally downloaded movie, with 23.653 million such downloads, according to Variety.
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The tape was then released nationwide as an EP halfway through 1998 in its unaltered, unmastered form and quickly became highly sought after in the scene. It was reputedly the most illegally copied album in the German hip hop scene that year. In May 1999, their first longplay album was released: Gefährliches Halbwissen. The word-wizardry of Dendemann became through this album the trademark of the band.
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On 25 March 2015, Remedy's CEO Matias Myllyrinne tweeted that the franchise had sold over 4.5 million units. The following month a Polygon story on the game's prototype for a sequel mentioned that Alan Wake had sold more than 3.2 million copies. According to a report, Alan Wake was the second most illegally copied Xbox 360 game of 2010, with more than 1.1 million downloads. It includes an amusing feature where if "pirated", the character wears an eye patch during the game.
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He linked this to the Chinese Dream, an individual work ethic which would strengthen the Chinese nation as a whole. Xi reiterated that China is against currency wars and will not lower the renminbi rate to boost exports. On the topic of his anti-corruption reforms, Xi said, "It has nothing to do with a power struggle. In this case, there's no House of Cards" - a reference to the Netflix political drama, which tops the list of most illegally downloaded shows in China.
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Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone praised Spears' version including it at number twenty-five on his Top 25 Singles of the 2010 list. Britney's original version went on to become the most illegally downloaded song of 2010. Little Mix blended "Telephone" with Queen's "Radio Ga Ga" (1984) during the eighth series of the British The X Factor and later released this version as a single. "Telephone" was covered by Lea Michele as Rachel Berry and Charice Pempengco as Sunshine Corazon for the American TV show Glee episode "Audition", which aired on , 2010.
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Confronted with economic instability, collapsing incomes, and rapidly rising unemployment that accompanied the fall of the Soviet Union, people began emigrating from Moldova on a large scale in the first half of the 1990s. The Information and Security Service of the Republic of Moldova has estimated that 1,200,000 to two million Moldovan citizens (almost 45% of a population of some 3.6 million) are working abroad, most illegally. Only around 80,000 are estimated to be in their destination country legally. Russia (especially Moscow region), Italy, Ukraine, Romania, Portugal, Spain, Greece, Turkey, and Israel are the main destinations (in decreasing order of importance).
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After being made available solely on Tidal, The Life of Pablo failed to chart initially due to West declining sharing the streaming numbers with Nielsen Music. The album was reportedly subject to over 500,000 illegal downloads within 24 hours of release, becoming the most illegally downloaded album ever and causing a resurgence in torrenting of music. This cost West $10 million in sales since he originally planned to offer album downloads for $20 each, which would have equated to $10 million if 500,000 purchases had been made. Despite West requesting Tidal to withhold streaming numbers for The Life of Pablo in February, the service revealed in March 2016 that the album was streamed over 250 million times within ten days of being released.
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