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© United Nations, May 2024. All rights reserved, worldwide. United Nations publication, Sales No. This publication may be reproduced in whole or in part and in any form for educational or non-profit purposeswithout special permission from the copyright holder, provided acknowledgement of the source is made. Suggested citation: UNODC, World Wildlife Crime Report 2024: Trafficking in Protected Species Comments on the report are welcome and can be sent to:unodcrab@unodc.org DISCLAIMERThe designations employed and the presentation of material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status ofany country, territory, city or area, or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers orboundaries. This publication has not been formally edited. Illustrations @unodc/Adobe Stock Notes:References to tons are to metric tons, unless otherwise stated. References to dollars ($) are to United States dollars, unless otherwise stated. UNITED NATIONS OFFICE ON DRUGS AND CRIMESVienna WORLD WILDLIFE CRIME REPORTTRAFFICKING IN PROTECTED SPECIES2024 Preface I am pleased to present the third edition of UNODC’sWorld Wildlife Crime Report, which aims to provide atool to assess and improve responses to this hugelydamaging form of criminal activity. The present reportcovers trends in the illicit wildlife trade, analysesharms and impacts, probes driving factors, and takesstock of responses. and demand ends, including through policyengagement,law enforcement and marketsuppression. Responses must be agile, targeted, andharmonized, benefitting from robust internationalcooperation. It is also important to always keep communities andtheir wellbeing front and centre. They are thecustodians of nature’s treasures, and we must raisetheir awareness, partner with them, and protect theirinterests. Wildlife crimes are diverse and often devastating intheir impact and consequences. They hamperconservation efforts, damage ecosystems, andcontribute to undermining our planet’s capacity tomitigate climate change. They also infringe on theessential needs, income opportunities, and culturalrights of local communities, and corrode governanceand the rule of law. Toenable such comprehensive responses,interventions must be informed by strong scientificevidence. This report speaks to the growing body ofevidence on wildlife crime, just as it speaks to theneed to expand this body even further, by investingmore in building data and analytical capacity, inresearching impacts and risks, and in monitoringdevelopments in illegal wildlife markets. Global recognition of this damage has grown steadily,and after two decades of concerted action, there issome cause for optimism. There has been tangiblesuccess against trafficking of some iconic species,while cross-border cooperation and criminalizationof wildlife crime have both improved. I hope that this report will generate greater momentumfor more effective interventions, more coherent policycommitments, and more attention to the great damagecaused by this vast criminal industry. Nevertheless, the magnitude of this illegal traderemains immense, affecting thousands of species ofanimals and plants and spanning more than 160countries and territories. Much more work is urgentlyneeded to tackle challenges both chronic andemerging. Seizures are not enough to understand the problem,nor to end it, and wildlife traffickers are quick to adaptin their methods and their trafficking routes, exploitinggaps in regulation and legislation and pouncing onmarket trends. Ghada WalyExecutive DirectorUnited Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Organized criminal groups remain heavily involved inwildlife crime and play important roles across thetrafficking chain, from source to end market, whilecorruption continues to hamper regulation andenforcement efforts, and new technologies providetraffickers with better access to global markets. Disrupting and dismantling this criminal enterpriserequires multifaceted interventions at both the supply Table of Contents Acknowledgements6Summary, conclusions & policy implications8Chapter 1: Introduction40Chapter 2: Characterizing wildlife trafficking and associated crime53Chapter 3: The impacts and harms of wildlife crime84Chapter 4: What is driving wildlife crime patterns and trends?106Chapter 5: What works to decrease wildlife crime?137Chapter 6: Case studies (available online) Annex 159 Aknowledgements Munawar Kholis (Indonesia field work), Anjali Kumar(South America), Rebecca Latchford (rosewood),Andrew Lemieux (what works), Jennifer Mailley (whatworks and research strategy), Jeffrey Mangel(seahorses), Frances Maplesden (rosewood),Nurfadhilah(Indonesia field work),RabbyPramudatama (Indonesia field work), Jacob Phelps(harms),Shannon Rivera (South America, gender),Joni Seager (South America, gender), Tanya Shadbolt(seahorses), Carla Natalia Suarez Jurado (