Nature Crime: Illegal wildlife trade
SAVSIM CIC
Dr. Joe Giordano
SAVSIM CIC
Sheldon Jordan
Independent Consultant – Environmental Enforcement and Conservation Management
Shawn Karns
Director of Investigations & Training, WITA
Stephanie Karns
Executive Director, WITA
Red Flag Indicators for Wildlife and Timber Trafficking in Containerized Sea Cargo
Compendium that aims to capture the most common red flag indicators for illegal wildlife trade (IWT) happening through containerized sea cargo. It aims to guide and assist the maritime shipping sector in detecting possible non-compliance and IWT-related activities in their supply chains. It also provides recommendations and links to existing tools and best practices to help companies prevent further exploitation from traffickers.
RhinoCourtCases Map
The Oxpeckers Rhino Poachers Court Cases map shows the location of court cases involving rhino poaching in the country using data obtained from South Africa’s Ministry of Police. You can select individual markers on the map to read details about individual court cases and you can filter the results on the map by station, date and the name of the accused.
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.
Illegal Wildlife Trade – Red Flags
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.
