Traffic Southeast Asia

TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, works to ensure that trade in wild plants and animals is not a threat to the conservation of nature.

TRAFFIC specializes in:

•   Investigating and analysing wildlife trade trends, patterns, impacts and drivers to provide the leading knowledge base on trade in wild animals and plants;
•   Informing, supporting and encouraging action by governments, individually and through inter-governmental cooperation to adopt, implement and enforce effective policies and laws;
•   Providing information, encouragement and advice to the private sector on effective approaches to ensure that sourcing of wildlife uses sustainability standards and best practice;
•   Developing insight into consumer attitudes and purchasing motivation and guiding the design of effective communication interventions aimed to dissuade purchasing of illicit wildlife goods.

Objectives

To ensure that trade in wild plants and animals is not a threat to the conservation of nature.

Core Activities

• Monitors wildlife trade at international, regional and national levels - researching both domestic and international chains of supply and demand to identify interventions to increase the efficiency of management.
• Works closely with governments, providing critical information on the impacts of trade, motivating efforts to increase the ecological sustainability of trade in wild species and helping to improve enforcement of international wildlife trade control.
• Enhanced CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) implementation - More scientific foundations for CITES management decision making, including the establishment of robust legislative systems, regulatory guidelines and management frameworks for legal wildlife trade (e.g. setting and monitoring of quotas for harvest and trade).
• Inter-agency co-operation - Both in-country and between countries, to implement and enforce regulatory systems and legislation.
• Working with the private sector and civil society - The active engagement of trade and consumer associations, the transport industry and general civil society will help raise awareness of laws and upstream conservation effect market divers.

Area of Interest

Wildlife trade and CITES capacity building.