Resources

Regulatory Guidance

New deal to protect nature agreed at COP15
Biodiversity: Stronger measures against wildlife trafficking
New plan of action to combat illegal wildlife trade in Central Africa
FATF, 2021. International Standards on Combating Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism & Proliferation
United States Department of State, 2021. END Wildlife Trafficking Report
FATF, 2020. How can private sector help stop money laundering from illegal wildlife trade
FATF, 2020. Money Laundering and the Illegal Wildlife Trade
NCA, 2016. Guidance on submitting better quality Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs)
Following the Money: Wildlife Crimes in Anti-Money Laundering Laws: A Review of 110 jurisdictions
Compliance Protocol for managing stockpiles of CITES-listed shark fins in Hong Kong SAR
Anti-money laundering linked to wildlife trafficking becomes part of Chinese law enforcement training for the first time

Themis, 2021. Dangerous Liaisons: Environmental and Financial Crime.
TRAFFIC, 2021. Cracking the Code: An analysis of customs HS codes used in the trade in wild animals and plants from Africa to Asia.
Wilson, Gary J., 2021. Trade Based Money Laundering, Trade Finance and Illegal Wildlife Trafficking.
Zain, Sabri, 2020. Corrupting trade: An overview of corruption issues in illicit wildlife trade.
World Bank, 2019. Illegal Logging, Fishing, and Wildlife Trade: The Costs and How to Combat it.
INTERPOL, 2018. Global Wildlife Enforcement: Strengthening Law Enforcement Cooperation Against Wildlife Crime.
United for Wildlife, 2018. United for Wildlife Financial Taskforce Mansion House Declaration.

Investing in Extinction: How the global financial sector profits from traditional medicine firms using threatened species.
Financial Flows Associated With Illegal Wildlife Trade In South Africa: An Updated Perspective.
Corruption risks in the supply of non-human primates for clinical testing.
To and Through the Gulf: IWT Routes and Legal Environment.
ADB-WWF-ACAMS event video and resources. Following the money trails of the illicit wildlife trade.
ECOFEL, 2021. Financial Investigations into Wildlife Crime
EIA, 2021. Tackling Financial Flows from Illegal Wildlife Trade in East Asia.
TRAFFIC, 2021. Case Digest: An Initial Analysis of the Financial Flows and Payment Mechanisms Behind Wildlife and Forest Crime.
RUSI, 2017. Follow the Money: Using Financial Investigation to Combat Wildlife Crime.

UNODC, 2022. National Strategy to Combat Wildlife and Forest Crime in Nigeria
EIA, 2021. Vietnam’s Footprint in Africa: An analysis of the role of Vietnamese criminal groups in wildlife trafficking.
RUSI, 2021, Illegal Wildlife Trade and Financial Investigations in West Africa.
SAMLIT, 2021. Financial flows associated with Illegal Wildlife Trade in South Africa.
EIA, 2020. Out of Africa: How West and Central Africa have become the epicentre of ivory and pangolin scale trafficking to Asia.
Rhino horn trafficking as a form of transnational organised crime 2012-2021
Driving Destruction: Cattle rustling and instability in Nigeria
he Global Trade in Donkey Skins: A Ticking Time Bomb - The Donkey Skin Trade as a Trojan Horse for Wildlife Trafficking
The Global Trade in Donkey Skins: A Ticking Time Bomb - Biosecurity Risks and Implications for Human and Animal Health on a Global Scale

Factsheet on India’s Red Sanders in Illegal Wildlife Trade
Factsheet on India’s Caterpillar Fungus in Illegal Wildlife Trade
Factsheet on India’s Agarwood in Illegal Wildlife Trade
India's Pangolins Buried in Illegal Wildlife Trade
Skin and Bones: Tiger Trafficking Analysis from January 2000-June 2022
In Deep Water: India's Sea Cucumbers in Illegal Wildlife Trade
Online Illegal Trade in Highly Endangered Parrots in Indonesia
Myths or Money? Challenges and Implications of Donkey Farming
Vietnam's virtual landscape for illicit wildlife trading: A snapshot of e-commerce and social media.
Going viral: Myanmar’s wildlife trade escalates online. WWF
Wildlife Justice Commission, 2022. Bringing down the Dragon: An analysis of China’s largest ivory smuggling case.
Asian Development Bank and Supply Chain Finance Program Knowledge and Capacity Building Products
EIA, 2021. Vietnam’s Footprint in Africa: An analysis of the role of Vietnamese criminal groups in wildlife trafficking
Wildlife Justice Commission, 2020. Operation Jeopardy: The Growing Relevance of Cambodia in the Global Ivory Trade
OECD, 2019. The Illegal Wildlife Trade in Southeast Asia: Institutional Capacities in Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam.