Runaway to Extinction - Wildlife Trafficking in the Air Transport Sector

Abstract

Wildlife trafficking rise has been supported by the world's increasingly interconnected systems of finance, communication and transport, which have brought once isolated source regions to remote areas closer and closer to large demand markets in North America, Europe and Asia. This trafficking was once thought to be largely confined to Africa and Asia, wildlife trafficking has become increasingly prevalent all over the world and now ranking behind only drugs, humans and arms trafficking as the most valuable type of international organized crime estimated by annual value.