Geographic Scope: *Global*
TradeMapper
TradeMapper is an interactive tool to visualise trade data, through source, transit, and destination countries.
Wildlife Trade Portal
The most comprehensive open-access repository of wildlife seizure data. The Wildlife Trade Portal is an interactive tool that displays TRAFFIC’s open-source wildlife seizure and incident data.
SHERLOC
The SHERLOC portal is an initiative to facilitate the dissemination of information regarding the implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, the three Protocols thereto and the international legal framework against terrorism. Its legislative database provides data on multiple crime types, including crimes affecting the environment, and corruption.
WCS Conservation Technologies
Wildlife Conservation Society offers a suite of digital tools designed to support wildlife conservation efforts. It features technologies for data collection, monitoring, and analysis, including tools for tracking wildlife, detecting threats, and managing conservation projects. These resources aim to enhance field operations, improve data accuracy, and support effective decision-making in wildlife and habitat management.
Guidance To Photographing Live Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles for Identification
Provides standards for capturing and using photographic evidence to support wildlife trade investigations. The guide details best practices for photographing seized wildlife and related materials to ensure the evidence is useful for legal and enforcement purposes. Guidelines aim to enhance the quality and consistency of photographic documentation in wildlife crime cases, supporting effective enforcement and prosecution.
Legal Atlas
Online platform that offers detailed, interactive maps and resources for understanding and comparing legal frameworks across different jurisdictions. It provides insights into various areas of law, including environmental regulations and compliance requirements, by showcasing how legal standards and practices vary globally. The platform aims to support legal professionals, researchers, and policymakers in navigating complex legal landscapes and fostering cross-border legal understanding.
iNaturalist
Assists with general species identification. Every observation can contribute to biodiversity science, from the rarest butterfly to the most common backyard weed. The app shares community findings with scientific data repositories like the Global Biodiversity Information Facility to help scientists find and use community data.
Social and Behavioral Change Online Community of Practice
A community of conservation practitioners, non-governmental organizations, government agencies, academics, researchers, social marketers and advertisers who believe that behavioural science approaches can help to reduce demand for illegally traded wildlife products.
Tool for Rapid Assessment of Wildlife Markets in the Asia-Pacific Region for Relative Risk of Future Zoonotic Disease Outbreaks
The tool helps to assess wildlife markets and trade situations in the Asia-Pacific region to risks of future zoonotic outbreaks. The framework is intended to provide guidance to the region’s governments to assess the relative risk of potential new incidents of serious emerging infectious diseases associated with the trade in wildlife. The risk matrix, published in the One Health scientific journal, will initially be used to analyze wildlife markets in the Asia Pacific region. The evaluation tool recognizes the connection between people, nature and their shared environment, and provides a way for policy makers to take a holistic approach to ecosystem, animal and human health.
CITES Wildlife TradeView
Visualises CITES trade data over time, by species or by country.