Significant airport seizures reveal a clear pattern of gibbons being smuggled in checked-in luggage from Southeast Asia ...

The average number of recorded seizure cases has roughly halved since 2018, and open sales have largely disappeared from the shops surveyed. However, turtle products remain advertised online, while ...

We work on wildlife trade because illegal and unsustainable trade is one of the most direct threats to species, ecosystems, global security, and the services nature provides. Our mission is to make ...

TRAFFIC provides decision-makers with evidence, technical advice and practical support for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) implementation. Its 2030 Strategy aligns with the KMGBF vision ...

TRAFFIC has over 170 staff working on five continents towards the shared goal of reducing the pressure of unsustainable trade on natural biodiversity. Our team includes experts from a plethora of ...

TRAFFIC is a leading non-governmental organisation working to ensure that trade in wild species is legal and sustainable for the benefit of the planet and people.

These are just some of the shocking revelations contained in a new report, Empty Shells: An assessment of abalone poaching and trade from southern Africa, published today by TRAFFIC, the international ...

ShellShock explores the state of South Africa’s endemic Abalone Haliotis midae. Decades of poaching and trafficking have driven wild populations towards collapse, fuelling organised crime and ...

Unauthorised extraction from the wild for illegal trade as pets, and for food and medicine, are the main drivers of this trade. The findings were revealed through a factsheet “Tortoises and Freshwater ...

Threatened African species are facing an increasing peril from an unregulated and illegal cyber-enabled wildlife trade in Cameroon, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Gabon, and Nigeria ...

Authorities worldwide have seized tigers and parts equal to an average of 150 tigers a year over almost 23 years, with seizures in the first half of this year signalling the relentless pursuit of ...