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“Butterfly collecting has come a long way since the Victorian caricature of ruddy-faced Englishmen in khaki shorts bounding across the countryside with enormous nets.

These days the worldwide illegal trade in endangered species is worth an estimated $10 billion to $15 billion a year, according to law enforcement reports.

It can be as perilous as it is lucrative.”

Read the full story of an undercover agent fighting butterfly poachers at:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/20070818-0915-thebutterflysmuggler.html