Paleontologists have reported that there is an active black market where traffickers provide customers dinosaur fossils for sale. The customers,…
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) stated that there are almost 19,000 prostitutes working in Mongolia. The population of the country is 2.7 million, meaning that there is one prostitute for every 140 people.
The illegal wildlife trade in Mongolia generates $100 Million a year.
Human trafficking in Mongolia finds 3,000 to 5,000 victims each year. A majority of the human trafficking victims are women and children who end up working in the prostitution industry. Mongolian victims are trafficked to countries as far away as Germany, Israel, and the United Arab Emirates.