As five-year forestry project concludes,  TRAFFIC reflects on Cross-Continental Success advancing legal timber trade ...

What if the most effective way to stop wildlife trafficking wasn’t in the forest — but in the financial system?

China has just taken a major step forward in tackling wildlife trafficking by strengthening its national anti-money laundering framework to target the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...