Long familiar with seizures of pangolin scales, elephant ivory and other wildlife contraband smuggled via sea, Malaysia is now helping frontliners at one of the world’s busiest container ports boost ...

In February 2025, 4,386 Pig nosed Turtles Carettochelys insculpta packed into plastic containers were found on a Kuala Lumpur ...

The global trade in marine ornamental fish is worth over USD1 billion and involves annual trade in 40 million individual fish ...

Opportunities to ensure the long-term sustainability of wild-harvested species used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) ...

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 ...

People are dying, daily life is being fragmented, businesses are failing, families and communities are suffering and there is enormous uncertainty about when things will begin to improve, never mind ...

TRAFFIC’s “HIGH FLYING: Insight into wildlife trafficking through India's airports” analysis found the trafficking of over 70,000 native and exotic wild animals, including their body parts or ...

Overall, whole tigers, dead and live, as well as a variety of tiger parts equal to a conservative estimate of 3,377 tigers were confiscated between January 2000 and June 2022 across 50 countries and ...

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 ...

TRAFFIC, together with its key partner UNODC canvassed the globe for cases, with valuable contributions from leading financial crime partners, to identify examples where financial investigation was ...

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 ...

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 ...