These species often constitute significant financial transactions, both for national economies as well as to black markets. Due to lack of clear definitions, the boundaries between different types of environmental crimes is sometimes unclear. Crime groups coordinate through harvesting, trading, and transporting networks to subvert national and international laws and move wildlife products to market.76 A financier who can supply weapons and material to poaching parties often directs harvesting networks. As illicit economies grow and political power is looted by transnational criminal organizations states will weaken further in a vicious cycle of state degradation accompanied by increased foreign illicit trade.