Indicator |
Proportion of traded wildlife that was poached or illicitly trafficked
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Target |
Take urgent action to end poaching and trafficking of protected species of flora and fauna and address both demand and supply of illegal wildlife products
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Organisation |
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
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Definition and concepts |
Definition:
The share of all trade in wildlife detected as being illegal
Concepts:
“All trade in wildlife” is the sum of the values of legal and illegal trade
“Legal trade” is the sum of the value of all shipments made in compliance with the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), using valid CITES permits and certificates.
“Illegal trade” is the sum of the value of all CITES/listed specimens seized.
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Data sources |
The legal trade data are reported annually by Parties to CITES and stored in the CITES Trade Database, managed by the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre in Cambridge.
The detected illegal trade data have been gathered from a number of sources and combined in a UNODC database called “World WISE”. This database will be filled, from 2017, with data from the new annual CITES Illegal Trade reporting requirement.
The US LEMIS price data for CITES-listed species are also provided to UNEP-WCMC within the U.S. annual report to CITES.
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Data providers |
The CITES Management Authority of each country
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Comment and limitations |
Seizures are an incomplete indicator of trafficking, and subject to considerable volatility. Universal coverage is not presently available, although 120 countries are represented in the present database. Since the indicator looks at the relationship between two values, changes in the relationship could be due to changes in either value.
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Method of computation |
The value of a species-product unit is derived from the weighted average of prices declared for legal imports of analogous species product units, as acquired from United States Law Enforcement Monitoring and Information System of the Fish and Wildlife Service.
The value of legal trade is the sum of all species-product units documented in CITES export permits as reported in the CITES Annual Reports times the species-product unit prices as specified above.
The value of illegal trade is the sum of all species-product units documented in the World WISE seizure database times the species-product unit prices as specified above.
The indicator is value of illegal trade/(value of legal trade + value of illegal trade)
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Metadata update |
2016-07-19
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International organisations(s) responsible for global monitoring |
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
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UN designated tier |
2
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