Wildlife traffickers are exploiting the global financial system to hide their profits in plain sight, using legitimate ...

For example in Morogoro, Tanzanian police worked with wildlife officers in national parks to successfully arrested multiple ...

From ecosystems to wildlife, conservation success depends on human behaviours. But shifting people’s choices to behave in a ...

As CITES CoP20 closes in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, TRAFFIC notes highlights from the event. Lasting success will now require nations and regions to cooperate and take concrete action to stop illegal ...

Gibbons, nature’s famed acrobats now already on the brink, are tumbling deeper into peril with seizures from illegal trade climbing over the past decade and reaching an all-time high in 2025. Over 336 ...

Trade in marine ornamental fish is an important source of livelihoods for coastal communities. But unsustainable and/or unregulated collection of ornamental fish may be damaging reef habitats and ...

Rhino poaching in Africa drops to lowest level since 2011, but total rhino numbers decline 6.7% — with white rhinos at near two-decade low Asian rhinos stable, but Critically Endangered species in ...

Angelo, M., Hehmeyer, A., Oliveira, M., Charity, S. Illegal gold mining serves as both a lucrative criminal enterprise and a vehicle for money laundering. The Amazon region is exploited for illegal ...

What if we could protect the world’s forests and support the communities who rely on them — simply by making smarter decisions about how we trade wild plants? Today, TRAFFIC is proud to launch a major ...

Interpol have confirmed the seizure of nearly 20,000 live animals – all endangered or protected species – in an operation that involved intelligence gathering across 138 countries. Operation Thunder ...

As wildlife crime syndicates continue to exploit financial networks for their illegal activities, China's newly revised Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Law is a powerful step forward in protecting ...

Madagascar’s extraordinary medicinal plants, prized for their unique properties and used in life-saving cancer drugs and health products, are being harvested in unregulated quantities for local and ...