Reports and Publications

Reports and Publications

Analysis of the Illegal Wildlife Trade in Border Areas of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, and Bolivia Based on Confiscations from 2010 to 2018
Analysis of the Illegal Wildlife Trade in Border Areas of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, and Bolivia Based on Confiscations from 2010 to 2018
Reports and Publications | Fauna Trafficking
December, 2023 Regional

The publication examines the illegal wildlife trade in the border areas between Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, and Bolivia, analyzing confiscations from 2010 to 2018 and offering recommendations to improve control in these critical areas, taking into account the diversity and unique challenges of each country.

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Behavior Change Framework for Andean-Amazonian Countries: Addressing Illegal Wildlife Trafficking
Behavior Change Framework for Andean-Amazonian Countries: Addressing Illegal Wildlife Trafficking
Reports and Publications | Fauna
December, 2023 Regional

This framework provides a roadmap for developing interventions based on behavioral sciences, through cases posed in Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador.

Illegal wildlife trafficking is a problem inherent to human behavior. This offers the opportunity to apply behavioral knowledge to make these efforts more effective and generate innovative solutions.

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Problem Analysis for Wildlife Protection in 55 Steps
Problem Analysis for Wildlife Protection in 55 Steps
Reports and Publications | Fauna
October, 2023

The manual, published in 2022, is an adaptation of methods used in criminal analysis to apply them to wildlife protection. It is aimed at a broad audience that includes analysts, managers, and donors interested in conservation. With 55 steps, the manual provides a comprehensive guide for analyzing problems, conducting investigations, and formulating prevention strategies.

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Progress Report 2022 – The Alliance for Wildlife and Forests
Progress Report 2022 – The Alliance for Wildlife and Forests
Reports and Publications | Fauna Forests
August, 2023 Regional

The Alliance presents the summary of the main advances and results obtained during the third year of its implementation. This document compiled the achievements of its coordination work with allies from government agencies and civil society in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and the triple border with Brazil.

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Analysis of legal tools against wildlife trafficking
Analysis of legal tools against wildlife trafficking
Reports and Publications | Fauna
December, 2022 Regional

This comprehensive legal analysis in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru and Paraguay aims to identify proposals for action that take advantage of inter-institutional and cross-border synergies in these countries to address weaknesses and take advantage of existing strengths in the legislative, regulatory and institutions to face the crime of wildlife trafficking from a transnational perspective.

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Summary of multi-lingual multi-platform investigations of online trade in jaguar parts
Summary of multi-lingual multi-platform investigations of online trade in jaguar parts
Reports and Publications | General
December, 2022 Regional

This study conducted by WCS on 31 open-access online platforms, in 7 languages, detected 230 publications with possible jaguar parts for sale. The fangs and the skins are the constituent elements most detected. This represents an emerging and serious threat to jaguar populations throughout the range of this Latin America wildlife icon.

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Contribution of the Forest Sector, challenges, proposals, actions with results: Consolidated Report of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.
Contribution of the Forest Sector, challenges, proposals, actions with results: Consolidated Report of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.
Reports and Publications | Forests
October, 2022 Regional

Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru, four countries of the Amazon basin, made national reports where they recorded their main findings, recommendations, lessons learned, and reflections about the challenge to reduce timber trafficking in the region and promote the trade of legal timber.

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Summary of progress and results for 2021 – The Alliance for Wildlife and Forests.
Summary of progress and results for 2021 – The Alliance for Wildlife and Forests.
Reports and Publications | Forests
July, 2022 Regional

The Alliance presents the summary of the main advances and results obtained during the third year of its implementation. This document compiled the achievements of its coordination work with allies from government agencies and civil society in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and the triple border with Brazil.

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Analysis of the dynamics of legal and illegal trade in Matamata turtles (Chelus fimbriata and Chelus orinocensis) in Peru, Colombia and Brazil
Analysis of the dynamics of legal and illegal trade in Matamata turtles (Chelus fimbriata and Chelus orinocensis) in Peru, Colombia and Brazil
Reports and Publications | Fauna
June, 2022 Regional

This document analyzes the dynamics of legal and illegal trade in Matamata turtles (Chelus fimbriata and Chelus orinocensis) in Peru, Colombia, and Brazil. In this way, it describes the volume of legal trade for exports of Matamata turtles from Peru in the last decade, the volume of its illegal trade in Peru, Colombia, and Brazil in the last decade, and compares its legal and illegal trade in Peru based on market economic forces and discusses the effectiveness of legal trade in curbing illegal trade.

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