Nature Crime: Illegal wildlife trade
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.
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.
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.
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.