This research was conducted to provide a comprehensive understanding of the wild harvest and trade dynamics of medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) in Madagascar, and to highlight the legislative and ...

Trade is one of the oldest and most foundational of human behaviours. We are piloting and highlighting examples of how legal and sustainable trade itself can protect biodiversity, whilst also ...

Madagascar’s extraordinary medicinal plants, prized for their unique properties and used in life-saving cancer drugs and health products, are being harvested in unregulated quantities for local and ...

New research from TRAFFIC unveils rampant illegal trade of Southern Africa’s endangered succulent plants, pushing some of the world’s rarest botanical treasures toward extinction Over 1.6 million ...

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 ...

A short film about forensic science being used to fight wildlife crime in Malawi has been shortlisted for a tve Global Sustainability Film Award. The 12-minute film ‘Crime Scene to Courtroom’ explains ...

Increasing demand for ‘the wood of the gods’ could threaten the survival of wild Aquilaria trees in the Philippines, according to new research. Incense, perfume, threatened trees? Illegal collection ...

Nepal’s Himalayan forests, rich in biodiversity and home to numerous keystone species, are under threat. Overharvesting of wild plants and fungi, climate change, illegal trade, and inequitable supply ...

Our mission is to ensure that trade in wild species is legal and sustainable, for the benefit of the planet and people TRAFFIC’s mission is built on the long-term vision of the Kunming-Montreal Global ...

The global trade in wild species involves thousands of different species, environments, commodities, supply chains, and consumer markets. Poaching and trafficking, as well as legal yet unsustainable ...