TRAFFIC Logo

 

Market stall selling wildlife parts in Myanmar, 2005 © Chris R. Shepherd/TRAFFIC

Southeast Asia At the heart of wildlife trade

Market stall selling wildlife parts in Myanmar, 2005 © Chris R. Shepherd/TRAFFIC

i

Published 19 February 2020

  English 

Renewed game plan needed to tackle Southeast Asia’s wildlife trafficking problem

Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, 20th February 2020—Some 900,000 pangolins trafficked globally with significant proportions linked to Southeast Asia, over 200 tonnes of African Elephant ivory and 100,000 Pig-nosed Turtles seized in recent years: the scale of wildlife trafficking in Southeast Asia is incredible and a renewed game plan is needed to combat it, says a new report released today.

Southeast Asia: At the heart of wildlife trade

Report author(s):
Kanitha Krishnasamy and Monica Zavagli

Publication date:
February 2020


Notes:

Executive summary (4 MB)

Overall conclusions and recommendations (1 MB)

Assessments of each of the ASEAN countries (17 MB)

Relevant photos and captions for media use are available here.


About Wildlife TRAPS

The Wildlife TRAPS Project, implemented by TRAFFIC and IUCN with funding support from USAID, is helping to forge cross-sectoral partnerships with government and experts in inter-governmental organisations, NGOs, academia, and the private sector to identify risk mitigation strategies to prevent future zoonotic spillover potential associated with trade in wild animals. 

As well as social and behavioural change interventions, the Wildlife TRAPS project is supporting policy and regulatory reform efforts, including strengthening supply chain management systems. The identification of critical control points within wildlife trade supply chains will help target illicit and other high-risk wildlife trade practices that may facilitate the transmission of zoonotic diseases.