Bellingcat's Online Investigation Toolkit
  • About
  • Most Used
  • New Tools
  • ⚒️Categories
    • Maps & Satellites
      • Maps
      • Satellite Imagery
      • Street View
    • Geolocation
    • Image/Video
      • Reverse Image Search
      • Facial Recognition
      • Metadata
      • Misc
    • Social Media
      • Discord
      • Facebook
      • Instagram
      • LinkedIn
      • Reddit
      • Telegram
      • Tiktok
      • Twitter/X
      • Vkontakte
      • Youtube
      • Other Networks
      • Multiple Networks
      • International
    • People
    • Websites
    • Companies & Finance
    • Conflict
    • Transport
    • Environment & Wildlife
    • Archiving
    • Data Organization & Analysis
  • 📖Resources
    • Guides & Handbooks
    • Education
    • Newsletters & Toolkits
    • Stay Safe
  • More
    • All Tools
      • 4plebs
      • 527 Explorer
      • About Maps and Satellites
      • ACLED
      • AllTrails
      • Apollo Mapping
      • Apple Maps
      • Archive.today
      • Atlos
      • Auto Archiver
      • AutoStitch
      • Azure AI Video Indexer
      • Baidu Maps
      • Bellingcat OpenStreetMap Search
      • Bing Maps
      • Blackbird
      • Blender
      • Bluesky Insights
      • BskyFollowFinder/Bluesky network analyzer
      • BskyThreadReader
      • Bulletpicker.com
      • CAT UXO
      • China-related resources
      • Chronotrains
      • CITES Trade Database
      • Companies House
      • Convert Geographic Units
      • Datawrapper
      • DeHashed
      • DiscordLeaks
      • Distill.io
      • DomainTools Whois Lookup
      • Earth Explorer
      • Earth Online
      • EDGAR Suite
      • EDGAR
      • Equasis
      • Etherscan
      • EU consolidated corporate registers
      • ExifTool
      • F4Map
      • FaceCheck.ID
      • FlightAware
      • Flightradar24
      • Forensically
      • GeoHints
      • Gephi
      • Ghunt
      • Global Fishing Watch Map
      • Global Forest Watch
      • Global Monitoring System - ECOSOLVE
      • Global Suppliers Online
      • Google Earth Engine
      • Google Earth Pro
      • Google Flood Hub
      • Google Lens
      • Google Maps
      • GovMap
      • GPSJam
      • Have I Been Pwned
      • Hitta.se
      • Hoaxy
      • Hugin
      • Hunchly
      • ICANN Lookup
      • ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database
      • ImportGenius
      • ImportYeti
      • Index Database
      • Instagram Location Search
      • Instant Data Scraper
      • Intelx.io
      • InVID
      • KartaView
      • Leak-Lookup
      • License Plate Maps
      • LittleSis
      • Liveuamap
      • Logseq
      • Lumen
      • Maigret
      • Maltego Graph
      • MapChecking
      • Mapillary
      • MapSwitcher
      • MarineTraffic
      • Meta Content Library
      • MW Geofind
      • Name Variant Search
      • Namechk
      • NASA Firms
      • NASA Worldview
      • NeutrOSINT
      • North Data
      • Obsidian
      • OCCRP Aleph
      • Open Measures
      • Open Ownership
      • Open Source Munitions Portal
      • OpenCorporates
      • OpenSanctions
      • OpenSecrets
      • OrbTrack
      • Osint Tools Map
      • Overpass Turbo
      • PeakVisor
      • Picuki
      • PimEyes
      • Pinpoint
      • PixPlot
      • Planet Labs
      • QGIS
      • Quick geolocation search
      • Radar Interference Tracker
      • RAWGraphs
      • RootAbout
      • RuPEP
      • SanctionsExplorer
      • satellites.pro
      • Search by Image
      • Sentinel Hub Playground
      • ShadeMap
      • Shadow Finder
      • ShadowMap
      • Sherlock
      • Skopenow
      • SkyFi
      • Snap Map
      • Strava
      • Suncalc
      • Telegago
      • Telegram Group Joiner
      • Telegram Phone Number Checker
      • TelegramDB
      • Telemetrio
      • Telemetry
      • Telepathy
      • Tencent Maps
      • TGStat
      • The Information Laundromat
      • TinEye
      • TrueCaller
      • TruffleHog
      • Twitter Advanced Search
      • Twitter Location Search
      • Twitter Video Downloader
      • Umbra Space
      • UN Comtrade Database
      • UNOSAT Analyses
      • Uwazi
      • VesselFinder
      • Wayback Machine
      • Web Archives
      • What CMS
      • WhatsMyName
      • Who posted what?
      • Whoxy
      • Wikimapia
      • Wikipedia list of registers
      • WildEye
      • Wildlife Trade Portal
      • xIFr
      • Yandex Maps
      • Zotero
Powered by GitBook
On this page
  • URL
  • Description
  • Level of difficulty
  • Requirements
  • Limitations
  • Ethical Considerations
  • Guides and articles
  • Tool provider
  • Advertising Trackers

Was this helpful?

Edit on GitHub
Export as PDF
  1. More
  2. All Tools

Wildlife Trade Portal

An open-source tool to search wildlife seizure data worldwide.

Last updated 15 days ago

Was this helpful?

URL

Description

This tool helps researchers explore and visualize wildlife trade seizures around the world by filtering by individual incidents or events. You can search by species, countries involved and dates. An advanced search allows you to include incidents involving organized crime and corruption, people, specific locations and taxonomic characteristics of species. As a result you will get charts and visuals that enable you to explore incidents by country, year, taxonomy, commodity type, category (for example, seizure or enforcement action), transport method, trade routes and transit type (airport, road, etc).

You will also see a results page with a list of the incident, a map that locates incidents in the countries involved, and other charts that you can reproduce and modify depending on what you need.

For example, you can see the number of people by government involvement over time or the number of incidents by type of transit over time. You can also search for multiple species. In this way, you can find incidents related to all the species you are looking for.

The results can be exported. Have a look at to get a sense of how the dashboard looks like.

You can contribute to this site by providing the source, the date, the country of an incident, any associated countries on the trade route, any associated species, the type of commodity, and the quantity of commodity of a seizure of which you are aware.

The Wildlife Trade Portal is also connected to another tool called . This site, launched on November 2024, allows you to explore timber trade data from the UN Comtrade database via API. It offers an Annual Trade Statistics Dashboard, where you can explore trade flows around the world, and an Annual Trade Discrepancies Dashboard, where you can find inconsistencies in reported trade between two countries.

To date, this tool continues to receive frequent updates.

Level of difficulty

Requirements

Access is immediate, but you have to “request an account”. You have to provide your workplace and personal information, plus some details of your work or you put “Freelance” in the workplace section and a brief explanation of what you are working on. A confirmation email will be sent and after clicking on it, you are all set.

Limitations

This site uses media sources and contributions, also aproximates (date ranges, for example). This site may be a good place to start researching, but you may have trouble checking how official the data is. It is advisable to search for original sources from the results provided on this site. All information is obtained from open sources and there is no information about the fact checking process.

Ethical Considerations

Guides and articles

Guides:

Articles:

Tool provider

TRAFFIC, headquartered in Cambridge, England + Arcadia, a family charitable foundation, headquartered in the UK.

Advertising Trackers

Page maintainer

Lieth Carrillo

This site uses media sources such as local news (for example, this seizure in ) and NGO's articles (for example, this seizure in ), as well as . The ethical challenges this raises must be determined by each user, taking into account for what and by whom the data will be used.

www.wildlifetradeportal.org
this user guide (pdf)
TimberStats
India
Uganda
contributions
TimberStats Resources Introduction
Traffic Bulletin: Updates from the Wildlife Trade Portal
Dataset of seized wildlife and their intended uses
South Africa is The World's Largest Exporter of Live Tigers