Traffic (conservation programme)

TRAFFIC
The Wildlife Trade Monitoring Network
Formation1976
TypeInternational non-governmental organization
Location
  • Cambridge, UK
Area served
Worldwide
ProductsTraffic Bulletin, Various reports
ServicesWildlife trade, Conservation
Key people
  • John A Burton, first Director
  • Rick Scobey, current Executive Director
Employees
~140 (2019)
Websitewww.traffic.org

TRAFFIC (Trade Records Analysis of Flora and Fauna in Commerce), also known as the Wildlife Trade Monitoring Network, is a global non-governmental organization monitoring the trade in wild plants and animals. TRAFFIC focuses on preserving biodiversity and sustainable legal wildlife trade while working against unsustainable illegal wildlife trade. It was originally created in 1976 as a specialist group of the Species Survival Commission of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and evolved into a strategic alliance of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the IUCN.[1]

  1. ^ "TRAFFIC". Iucn.org. 21 January 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2018.