Here is a selection of interesting media articles, podcasts and webinar recordings that will give you a better sense of the evolving scale and nature of the IWT and its underlying financial flows:
Media Articles
- Malaysian nicknamed the ‘Godfather’ jailed in US for rhino horn trafficking
- Jailing of international wildlife crime kingpin Teo Book Ching is a body-blow to illegal trade
- The reawakening of the illegal wildlife trade in the aftermath of COVID
- Poached, caged, shipped in socks: on patrol with the police battling Colombia’s illegal wildlife trade
- Nigeria destroys seized pangolin parts to deter wildlife trafficking
- Hong Kong’s illegal wildlife trade flourishing despite tougher enforcement powers
- Man Is Charged With Smuggling $200,000 Worth of Butterflies and Bugs
- Spanish police rescue 400 animals, arrest 13 in illegal traffic ring bust
- Poaching a ‘major, overlooked threat’ to biodiversity in China, study finds
- Governments agree new measures to clamp down on financial crime fuelling the illegal wildlife trade
- Nigeria to investigate killings of endangered wildlife, environment minister says
- $20,000 monkeys: Inside the booming illicit trade for lab animals
- Border Force seize big cat body parts and crocodile blood
- Thousands of turtles in Peru saved from trafficking
- Elite appetite turns Bangladesh from source to consumer of tiger parts
- The Shark Fin Hunters
Podcasts
- Malaysian nicknamed the ‘Godfather’ jailed in US for rhino horn trafficking
- Jailing of international wildlife crime kingpin Teo Book Ching is a body-blow to illegal trade
- The reawakening of the illegal wildlife trade in the aftermath of COVID
- Poached, caged, shipped in socks: on patrol with the police battling Colombia’s illegal wildlife trade
- Nigeria destroys seized pangolin parts to deter wildlife trafficking
- Hong Kong’s illegal wildlife trade flourishing despite tougher enforcement powers
- Man Is Charged With Smuggling $200,000 Worth of Butterflies and Bugs
- Spanish police rescue 400 animals, arrest 13 in illegal traffic ring bust
- Poaching a ‘major, overlooked threat’ to biodiversity in China, study finds
- Governments agree new measures to clamp down on financial crime fuelling the illegal wildlife trade
- Nigeria to investigate killings of endangered wildlife, environment minister says
- $20,000 monkeys: Inside the booming illicit trade for lab animals
- Border Force seize big cat body parts and crocodile blood
- Thousands of turtles in Peru saved from trafficking
- Elite appetite turns Bangladesh from source to consumer of tiger parts
- The Shark Fin Hunters
- Pangolins - Outwitting the traffickers
- The threatened species in traditional medicines and the big names investing in them
- Crossing Continents - Cyprus: The battle over songbird slaughter
- Black Mambas - Leitah Mkhabela - The Black Mambas, and the life of a female anti-poaching ranger
- Born Free
- Conservation South Luangwa - Benson Kanyembo - Protecting Zambia's wildlife and training the next generation
- Greater Kruger Environmental Protection Foundation - Sharon Haussmann - GKEPF and protecting wildlife in the Greater Kruger Area
- Global Initiative - Abalone: The Trafficked South African Sea Snail
- Global Initiative Illegal cheetah trade from East Africa
- KYC360 - AML Talk Show host Stephen Platt with guest speakers Chinali Patel and Brian Gonzales
- Natural History Museum - Wild Crimes
- Peter Knights - WildAid and reducing the demand for illegal wildlife consumption
- Re:wild - James Slade – Firefighter, ranger, and wildlife crime prevention
- Rhino Recovery Fund - Markus Hofmeyr - Rhino Recovery Fund, saving the rhinos, and epic translocations
- RUSI - Illegal Wildlife Trade: Not Just a Talking Point
- Tanglewood Foundation - Peter Eastwood - Tanglewood, Koru Camp, and empowering wildlife communities
- This Wild Life
- Themis - Tackling environmental destruction and financial crime
- TRAFFIC - Nick Ahlers - Ensuring the trade of wildlife is not a threat to nature
- Tusk Trust - Charlie Mayhew, MBE - Founding Tusk, Wildlife Ranger Challenge, and Massive Impact
- UfW - David Fein - United for Wildlife, working to end IWT, and The Earthshot Prize
- Wildlife Justice Commission - Combating international wildlife trafficking and other environmental crime
- Wildlife Justice Commission - Olivia Swaak-Goldman - Rhino Horn Threat Assessment
- ZSL - Grant Miller, MBE - ZSL, ranger support, trauma care, and a passion for conservation
Webinars
- WWF - Joining Forces to Stop Illegal Wildlife Trafficking Online
- FATF - Money Laundering and Illegal Wildlife Trade