Can tech-savvy tools take down illegal wildlife trafficking?

Exclusive: Artificial intelligence and data-driven platforms can disrupt the $23bn-a-year illegal trade as it increasingly shifts into the digital realm

The devastating impact of the multibillion-dollar illegal wildlife trade has never been more acute than in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Illegal wildlife trafficking, worth an estimated $23bn annually, has threatened nearly 9,000 species with extinction and for decades served as a low-risk source of income for criminal organisations and terrorist groups.

The Covid-19 outbreak, which has led to more than 221,000 deaths, 3m infections and economic collapse, has focused global attention on the labyrinthine enterprise of wildlife trafficking and how to bring those networks down.

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