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.

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.

Platform that provides tools for collecting and analyzing field data in wildlife conservation and environmental monitoring. It offers a customizable data collection system that uses mobile devices to record observations, track wildlife movements, and gather various environmental metrics. The platform is designed to enhance data accuracy and efficiency in fieldwork, supporting better decision-making and management in conservation projects.

Dust-like material that can be sprayed onto wood and detected only with a hand-held device. Stardust has the potential to be applied to timber and pulp and paper products as a cheaper alternative to bar-codes, radio-frequency identification (RFID) and other tracking technologies. Stardust is applied via microscope optical markers, thus promised to be precise, hand-held and practical in-field detection devices. There are multiple markers available that should provide instant authentication.

Ocean Aero has created the world’s first and only environmentally powered Autonomous Underwater and Surface Vehicle (AUSV), the TRITON, that collects data both above and below the ocean’s surface and relays it to you from anywhere, at anytime. TRITON is fully wind and solar powered, eliminating the use of environment-polluting fuel and is fully autonomous, eliminating the need for on-board or nearby crews. This autonomy allows for extended deployment and broad scope mission execution in remote ocean domains for longer periods of time.

Autonomous uncrewed surface vehicle that can collect data for a year without fuel.

Maritime risk analytics platform used to identify illicit activity through inconsistent or “risky” behavior.

Supply chain tracking using blockchain.

200 earth imaging satellites, the largest in history, imaging the whole Earth land mass daily.

AI-driven detection algorithm for computed tomography scanning systems using bespoke Microsoft AI to curb the trade. Currently, there are no integrated, multi-species illegal wildlife algorithms on the market. The project can be analysed to build a comprehensive and detailed picture of illegal wildlife trafficking across the world. It has been developed in collaboration with the United Kingdom Border Force’s Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) team, London Heathrow Airport, as well as the Duke of Cambridge’s Royal Foundation.