Iraq lawmakers passed a new law that aims to crack down on oil smugglers in Iraq. 
From Reuters (via the Guardian):

“According to official reports handed to parliament, Iraq is losing roughly 105,000 oil barrels a day from the southern fields in smuggling operations,” Balu said.
“Smuggling is a flourishing industry in the south, and parliament is taking [...]

Palestinians are forced to shop on the black market to meet their fuel requirements. 
From AFP: 
The Islamist movement Hamas, which seized control of the territory last June, set up a fuel rationing system last month in a bid to cope with the shortages and, some say, to fill its own coffers.
In order to get fuel legally, [...]

Slate Magazine explains why the Mafia is involved in trash smuggling.
It’s Mob Economics 101: Find a business that’s easy to enter and lucrative to control. Criminal organizations make lots of money from drugs, human trafficking, and counterfeit goods, but creating a monopoly on garbage collection is attractive because the business itself is legal, and public [...]

The Amazon Forest in Brazil is expected to see an increase in illegal logging after years of declines. 
From the AP (via Yahoo News):
Destruction of the Amazon is again on the upswing despite a recent crackdown on illegal logging, Brazil’s new environment minister said Wednesday.
Carlos Minc said official calculations of how much rain forest has been [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]