Illegal wildlife trade (IWT) generates substantial profits, often laundered through complex financial networks. To dismantle ...

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

Tanzania is home to wild herds of buffalo, wildebeest, hartebeest, and impala that have been hunted for meat by generations of indigenous communities. In 2019, Tanzania’s late President called on the ...

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’s “HIGH FLYING: Insight into wildlife trafficking through India's airports” analysis found the trafficking of over 70,000 native and exotic wild animals, including their body parts or ...

With over 70% of its species found nowhere else on Earth, Madagascar is facing a biodiversity crisis, as commercial poaching and trafficking—second only to deforestation—drive many endemic species ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...