Wildlife trade, crime and enforcement

The wildlife trade monitoring network

Data

Cite its trade reports, which carry more weight with governments than a campaign document

Undercover investigations exposing environmental crime and trafficking

Data

Read its undercover investigations for supply chain detail no open dataset contains

Free dashboard of a decade of global seizure data across 100+ jurisdictions, from the analytics group that supports counter-trafficking investigations worldwide

DataGlobal

Query a decade of seizure records to see which routes and species actually dominate trade

International operations and intelligence sharing against trafficking networks

DataGlobal

Understand how international operations work before expecting police cooperation across a border

Official record of international wildlife trade, 25M+ records since 1975

DataGlobal

Query declared trade volumes by species and country, the only official long series available

World Bank and GEF anti-poaching partnership across 38 countries

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Check whether your country is in the portfolio, since that shapes what national funding exists

Law enforcement and community training across Asia

DataAsia

Ask about enforcement and community training if your work sits in Southeast Asia

Intelligence-led investigations into wildlife, fish and timber trafficking

Data

Pass trafficking intelligence to investigators who can act on it rather than publish it

Overview of the poaching-to-demand chain and its scale

Data

Use its overview to brief a board or a journalist on how the trade chain works

Transport and finance taskforces against illegal wildlife trade

Data

Route a suspicious shipment or payment through its transport and finance taskforces

Organized crime analysis, including an environmental crime program

Data

Read environmental crime as organized crime, which changes who you would work with on it

Community anti-poaching case studies

Data

Read the 160 case studies before designing a community anti-poaching program, so you copy what worked

Six-pillar toolkit for stopping poaching at a site: assessment, technology, capacity, community, prosecution and cooperation. The link is http because the https certificate is issued for a different hostname and browsers will warn

Data

Work through its six pillars when auditing enforcement at a protected area

Wildlife crime whistleblowing

Data

Send information anonymously when reporting wildlife crime through official channels would be unsafe

UNODC wildlife crime law and case database

Data

Look up the actual legislation and case law for wildlife crime in a country before advising

Monitors thousands of wildlife trade records across online marketplaces and forums, from the Centre For Invasive Species Solutions and the University of Adelaide with Australian government funding. Free registration, and the homepage still says beta 1.0 from March 2022

DataAustralia

Register free to watch online trade listings, strongest on Australian biosecurity

TRAFFIC's open-access wildlife trade seizure database, drawn from its WITIS system of over 720,000 records. Search by species, product, country or incident, view it as charts and maps, and export the result. Free, but you must register

Data

Query seizure records by species or country, then export them for your own analysis

Analysis of the CITES trade record for cacti since 1976, keeping exporter and importer figures separate, with an explorer by genus, year, source and purpose and a downloadable table of documented seizures

Data

Check what share of a genus moves as wild-collected rather than propagated before you judge poaching pressure on it