Global Monitoring System - ECOSOLVE
Illicit online wildlife markets data from Brazil, South Africa and Thailand.
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Illicit online wildlife markets data from Brazil, South Africa and Thailand.
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https://www.ecosolve.eco/dashboard
This tool allows us to explore a growing phenomenon in the world of wildlife trafficking: the use of social networks and online marketplaces to offer live animals or parts of them. Since 2024, the site has collected more than 5791 detections of illegal wildlife trade online.
You can filter by 19 species, 3 countries (Brazil, South Africa and Thailand) and different online marketplaces such as Facebook, OLX and Mercado Livre (the last two refer to online marketplaces). When you perform a search you will get different visuals showing the number of detections, a market tracker and a trend monitor, all very useful to understand the market prevalence in certain online marketplaces.
In addition, you will get a database that lists the website, name, species, type of product (live or parts), where it was sold, among other information. You can also download the whole database.
Additionally, there is an analysis section where you can find different publications and events on online wildlife trade, environmental trade, among other relevant topics from the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GI TOC).
The ECOSOLVE initiative can be useful for those researching wildlife trade who want to explore online marketplaces and species trade ads. It can be a good place to start looking for patterns and discover the most relevant social networks and online marketplaces to search more thoroughly using other tools.
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Not all species are available and the tool only shows results for Brazil, South Africa and Thailand. February 21, 2025 was the last update and information is not updated automatically. Information in datasets is not very detailed. There is no information on whether this site is updated manually by a team or whether its updated using keywords appearing in the monitored social media and marketplaces, however, contributions can be made to the database, which would indicate that there may be human sources fact checking the information.
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ECO-SOLVE: Using AI to Disrupt Global Wildlife Trafficking
EU’s Global Illicit Flows programme (GIFP) and the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GI TOC), headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.
Lieth Carrillo
