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 ...

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 ...

Authorities worldwide have seized tigers and parts equal to an average of 150 tigers a year over almost 23 years, with seizures in the first half of this year signalling the relentless pursuit of ...

A major new TRAFFIC analysis, Beyond Skin and Bones: A 25-year Analysis of Tiger Seizures reveals an uptick in seizures and sharp shift towards the trade in whole tigers, both dead and alive. Covering ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unauthorised extraction from the wild for illegal trade as pets, and for food and medicine, are the main drivers of this trade. The findings were revealed through a factsheet “Tortoises and Freshwater ...

The report, In Plane Sight: Wildlife Trafficking in the Air Transport Sector, produced by C4ADS as part of the USAID Reducing Opportunities for Unlawful Transport of Endangered Species (ROUTES) ...

There are only an estimated 6,500 adults left in the wild. Cheetahs already face multiple threats to their survival in the wild, including habitat loss, prey depletion, low genetic diversity, and ...

A summary of the findings from the interviews is published today in The People Beyond the Poaching: Interviews with convicted offenders in South Africa. Almost three-quarters of offenders had been ...

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 ...

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 ...