Venezuela is attempting to curb losses from its citizens smuggling oil out of the country. 
From Reuters: 
Oil-producer Venezuela is awash in revenues from record high prices but is struggling to contain the lucrative business of smuggling subsidized fuel — the cheapest in the world.
The OPEC nation says it loses 27,000 barrels per day and $1 billion [...]

From AFP:
Nigeria has become the world piracy ‘hotspot’, with its prized oil industry a particular target, and the raiders have exposed flaws in the country’s security.
Despite the massive revenues earned from oil, officials concede Nigeria is ill equipped to combat pirates who ply the seas with speed boats, modern machine guns and radios and target [...]

Greenpeace is accusing a Japanese fishing company of smuggling whalemeat onto the black the market. 
From the Guardian: 
Anti-whaling campaigners said today that they had uncovered an embezzlement ring at the heart of the Japanese whaling fleet, accusing crew members of stealing choice cuts of whale meat worth millions of yen for sale on the black market.
Greenpeace’s [...]

From the AP (via IHT):
Hundreds of reptiles including some endangered species were rescued from traffickers and released into their natural habitat in Cambodia, a conservation group said Thursday.
Twelve endangered yellow-headed temple turtles were among the nearly 300 reptiles — weighing a total of 925 pounds — that authorities confiscated this week in Cambodia’s northwestern Battambang [...]

As the price of oil around the world continues to rise, gas smuggling in Thailand has been increasing as well.
From the Bangkok Post:
An increase in oil prices has intensified petrol smuggling from Malaysia into four districts of the southern province of Songkhla.
Oil business operators have stocked up on the illegally imported petrol in the hope [...]

From AFP:
Smuggling of ozone-depleting chemicals in the Asia-Pacific region is much worse than expected, a study released at a UN-backed environment conference said Wednesday.
The study analysed the trade of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which are controlled under an international treaty, and discovered wide discrepancies in export and import figures between trading countries.
“If you compare figures between countries [...]

In a report by the AP on the arrests of two smugglers of animal skins, the continued disappearance of tigers due to poaching is mentioned.
From the AP (via CNN):
Poaching is one of the main causes that has driven India’s wild tigers to the verge of extinction. Government figures released last month said India’s wild tiger [...]

From the Christian Science Monitor:
The recent fight in Basra between Iraqi forces and Shiite militiamen was about more than a government bid to reassert itself in a city where Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army was digging in. It was also about oil – and smuggling.Before the assault [...]

As Italy’s trash crisis continues, the spread of the smell of toxic trash has spread to the world famous mozzarella cheese of the region.
From the NY Times:
In the last few months, sales of buffalo mozzarella have dropped 40 percent, the product’s trade association says. The problem makes for a near-perfect morality play about Italy: For [...]

The International Herald Tribune reports on Siberian carvers who are using extinct Woolly Mammoths tusks to create ivory figures.
As global warming melts the tundra in Siberia, remains of the Woolly Mammoth emerge from the ground.  Carvers then use the ivory tusks to create figures to sell in Asia.
Conservationists are encouraging the use of the Woolly [...]