Nature Crime: Illegal wildlife trade
Wildlife Seizure Dashboard
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.
PortMATE (Port Monitoring and Anti-Trafficking Evaluation)
PortMATE is a tool designed to improve the monitoring of port activities and assist in the identification and mitigation of illicit trafficking.
OWLET Report Suspicious Wildlife Content Online
“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.
Cyberspotters Machine Learning System
A machine learning system that can isolate potential illegal wildife trade products for sale on online marketplaces. Current training data is on ivory, pangolin, wild cat teeth and claws, elephant hair and skin. The system is housed at WWF Singapore and is part of the Cyber Spotters initiative. Data extrapolated from this system gets forwarded to law enforcement (if deemed serious), to e-commerce companies (for their records) and kept internally to be used as references for potential future action i.e. demand reduction initiatives, digital deterrent.
OSINT Tracker
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.
Species Identification Guide for Lao PDR, Myanmar and Thailand
An 89-page guidebook to help enforcement officers identify species openly sold in markets in three Mekong countries. Also available in Burmese, Laotian, Thai, and Chinese.
Owls of India ID Guide
An identification guide to support enforcement identify species of Indian owls in illegal trade.
ROUTES Dashboard
Interactive graphics and visualisation tools on wildlife trafficking through airports and flight routes between 2009 and 2021 derived from open-source wildlife seizure data collected by C4ADS. When the ROUTES Partnership came to a close in 2021, the data and functionality from the ROUTES Dashboard were transferred into TRAFFIC’s Wildlife Trade Portal.
AI Guardian 2.0
AI Guardian 2.0 uses a customized model created by PaddleX, a development tool for the PaddlePaddle platform. The tool uses internet technology to enable the comprehensive management of illegal wildlife trade on the Internet and to make wildlife protection more efficient. The tool adopts the latest large vision model (LVM) and was trained jointly by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and Baidu PaddlePaddle through semi-supervised learning. The model will be upgraded regularly to incorporate the latest technology development and will expand the number and variety of species covered to keep up with latest trends in wildlife cybercrime.
Wildlife Sentinel
Wildlife Sentinel is an app to help staff at airports, airlines, and other aviation companies report suspected wildlife trafficking and corruption. The app is anonymous and is available for download on the Apple Store and Google Play Store.