Executive Director

The Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) Financial Flows Toolkit is for financial institutions with particular focus on Africa, Asia and broader global financial centres. The toolkit also provides comprehensive resources for addressing wildlife trafficking, including practical guides and strategic frameworks. It offers tools for law enforcement and conservationists to improve their response to illegal wildlife trade, focusing on investigation techniques, legal frameworks, and inter-agency cooperation. The red flag guidance document within this toolkit compiles a set of key IWT-related red flag indicators to help financial institutions identify the key signs of suspicious activity related to IWT. Some of these red flags are common to other types of crime, but are particularly relevant to IWT.

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.

Provides an interactive platform for visualizing and analyzing data related to wildlife trafficking and conservation. It offers detailed maps, charts, and data insights to track illegal wildlife trade trends and hotspots. The dashboard is designed to support researchers, policymakers, and conservationists by providing actionable information to combat wildlife crime and enhance conservation strategies.

“End Wildlife Trafficking Online” is dedicated to combating wildlife trafficking, a significant global issue that threatens biodiversity and ecosystems. It raises awareness about the illegal trade of animals and plants, emphasizing the impact on species, conservation efforts, and local communities. Complete the online form to report suspected illegal wildlife products including live endangered species or products made from their parts for sale online. The Coalition will review these listings and work with company partners to remove those that violate the Coalition’s Prohibited Wildlife Policy Framework and are relevant to their platforms.

Wildlife trafficking offender data is collated by the Southeast Asia Chapter and updated monthly for the United for Wildlife Taskforce. This data features details on nearly 400 arrests of individuals alleged to be trafficking wildlife globally over the past twelve months.

TradeMapper is an interactive tool to visualise trade data, through source, transit, and destination countries.

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.

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.

Visualises CITES trade data over time, by species or by country.