A review of TRAFFIC's work mid-2008 to mid-2010

4 Wildlife trade routes

Increasing multi-country and multi-agency collaboration via Wildlife Enforcement Networks
TRAFFIC continues to play an advisory role for EU enforcement co-ordination through the EU Enforcement Group, building on the EU Enforcement Action Plan co-developed by TRAFFIC. TRAFFIC was the driving force behind the development of ASEAN-WEN, and is a key player in supporting its development and implementation. TRAFFIC has also been the leading organization driving development and funding for regional approaches to wildlife trade enforcement networking in Central America, and South-east Asia. Nearly USD1 million was secured from the US State Department to advance these initiatives. In Central Africa, TRAFFIC, in close collaboration with WWF, has developed a draft Central Africa Wildlife Law Enforcement Action Plan and initiated discussions with COMIFAC and Central Africa government representatives to support the establishment of a Central Africa Regional enforcement network (as part of the Kinshasa Summit).

EU-TWIX—supporting EU enforcement and providing a model for the world
May 2010: The EU Trade in Wildlife Information eXchange (EU-TWIX), developed and maintained by TRAFFIC, went from strength to strength. It gained global recognition as the most functional database on illegal trade during CITES CoP 15, with the Parties adopting the CITES Secretariat’s recommendation to establish a global seizures database (‘GLOBAL-TWIX’) following the model of EU-TWIX. It holds in excess of 31,000 seizure records and has an active membership of over 500 law enforcement officers from all 27 EU Member States. It has also enabled investigations and arrests, and provides the basis for bi-annual analyses to the EU Enforcement Group to guide their work.

Co-operation between TRAFFIC and PROFEPA to combat illegal trade in Mexico
July 2010: In July, TRAFFIC and Mexico’s Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection (PROFEPA) signed a co-operation agreement to combat illegal trade in wild plants and animals in Mexico. Additional Memoranda of Understanding are being developed with two other Mexican government agencies.

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