Customs officers play a key role in detecting suspicious wildlife consignments by checking documents, inspecting shipments, ...

Rachel Boratto (GuArdean), Lalita Gomez (GuArdean), Heather Sohl (WWF), Leigh Henry (WWF), Kanitha Krishnasamy (TRAFFIC), Elizabeth John (TRAFFIC), Ramacandra Wong ...

Illegal wildlife trade (IWT) generates substantial profits, often laundered through complex financial networks. To dismantle trafficking networks and combat the associated corruption, law enforcement ...

A Malaysian court has issued a landmark penalty of almost MYR 129 million (USD32 million) and over 70 years total jail time to three Vietnamese nationals convicted of illegally keeping an incredible ...

We work on wildlife trade because illegal and unsustainable trade is one of the most direct threats to species, ecosystems, global security, and the services nature provides. Our mission is to make ...

Within the European Union (EU), France has an important role in the legal trade of wildlife, both as a demand country and as a transit zone. With more than 28 million specimens imported between 2008 ...

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 ...

In assessing the trafficking and illegal wildlife trade from the turn of the century, Southeast Asia: At the heart of wildlife trade shows just how persistent the problem has been. Authors also noted ...

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 ...

Gibbons, nature’s famed acrobats now already on the brink, are tumbling deeper into peril with seizures from illegal trade climbing over the past decade and reaching an all-time high in 2025. Over 336 ...

ShellShock explores the state of South Africa’s endemic Abalone Haliotis midae. Decades of poaching and trafficking have driven wild populations towards collapse, fuelling organised crime and ...