What if the most effective way to stop wildlife trafficking wasn’t in the forest — but in the financial system?

As five-year forestry project concludes,  TRAFFIC reflects on Cross-Continental Success advancing legal timber trade ...

The report, Pendants, Powder and Pathways—A rapid assessment of smuggling routes and techniques used in the illicit trade in African rhino horn, documents recent cases in which police have discovered ...

TRAFFIC is a leading non-governmental organisation working to ensure that trade in wild species is legal and sustainable for the benefit of the planet and people.

People are dying, daily life is being fragmented, businesses are failing, families and communities are suffering and there is enormous uncertainty about when things will begin to improve, never mind ...

Overall, whole tigers, dead and live, as well as a variety of tiger parts equal to a conservative estimate of 3,377 tigers were confiscated between January 2000 and June 2022 across 50 countries and ...

TRAFFIC, together with its key partner UNODC canvassed the globe for cases, with valuable contributions from leading financial crime partners, to identify examples where financial investigation was ...

Exports included 975 different taxa listed under either CITES2 Appendix I (most endangered) or Appendix II (not necessarily threatened with extinction, but may become so unless trade is closely ...

These are just some of the shocking revelations contained in a new report, Empty Shells: An assessment of abalone poaching and trade from southern Africa, published today by TRAFFIC, the international ...

Luxury seafood products sourced in South Africa are predominantly exported to consumers in east and southeast Asia. Many of the species involved are CITES-listed – protected under international trade ...

Angelo, M., Hehmeyer, A., Oliveira, M., Charity, S. Illegal gold mining serves as both a lucrative criminal enterprise and a vehicle for money laundering. The Amazon region is exploited for illegal ...

Rhino poaching in Africa drops to lowest level since 2011, but total rhino numbers decline 6.7% — with white rhinos at near two-decade low Asian rhinos stable, but Critically Endangered species in ...