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 ...

In just five years, Vietnam has significantly reduced the risk of illegal timber imports and opened the door for 78 manufacturers to reach more responsible, high-value markets. This progress was made ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Suri, P., Chng, S.C.L, Ahmad, A., Hunter, M., Devlin, C. Cross-border smuggling at the porous West Kalimantan-Sarawak land border enables the illegal movement of ...

Tédonzong, L.R.., Ewah, F.E.., Etoga, E., Mbotiji, N., Wankeu, A., Kamga, M., Nguiffo, S., Takoukam, A. Illegal logging remains rampant due to corruption, weak law ...

A bag full of reptiles at an Indian airport, a rare desert snake species from the mountains of Iran and Iraq, and a traveller who smuggled them from Thailand have demonstrated the massive scale and ...

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 ...

This research aims to provide a greater understanding of the who, what, where, when, how, and why of the illegal succulent trade dynamics, along with a review of legal proceedings of succulent court ...

Cameroon is a land of breathtaking biodiversity, home to some of the world’s most iconic and threatened species including chimpanzees, elephants, and gorillas. This rich natural heritage coexists with ...