- Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Enforcement Program
Ensures compliance with licensing and habitat requirements, and enforces prohibitions against the illegal taking or poaching of fish and wildlife.
www.wdfw.wa.gov/enf/enforce.htm
- NPR: Southeast Asia's Illegal Wildlife Trade
Looks at how profits and demand fuel commerce in endangered species.
www.npr.org/programs/re/archivesdate/2003/nov/wildlife/index.html
- WildAid's Active Conservation Awareness Program (ACAP)
Working to reduce the demand for illegal wildlife products in key markets globally, generating the necessary international will to decimate the illegal wildlife trade within our lifetimes and make wildlife conservation a global priority.
www.wildaid.org
- TigerHomes.org: Poaching Info
Even though tigers are classified as a critically endangered species, they are still killed to supply underground black markets with their organs, pelts, and bones.
www.tigerhomes.org/poaching.cfm
- WWF UK: Stop Illegal Wildlife Trade
Information about the WWF and TRAFFIC campaigning to make illegal wildlife trade offenses arrestable in the U.K.
www.wwf-uk.org/wildlifetrade/index.asp
- Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)
International campaigning organization committed to investigating and exposing environmental crime. Focuses on the impacts of poaching and the illegal trade of animals and timber.
www.eia-international.org
- Wild Jack Savage
Humorous site from the International Fund for Animal Welfare to bring attention to the Internet trading of exotic wild animals.
www.wildjacksavage.com
- TRAFFIC
Actively monitors and investigates wildlife and endangered species trade and provides information gathered as a basis for effective conservation policies and programs.
www.traffic.org
- Wildlife Crime Busters
National Geographic feature about forensic science being used to solve crimes against endangered animals.
www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/9902/crime-busters/index.html
- Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) (4)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Convention_on_International_Trade_in_Endangered_Species_of_Wild_Fauna_and_Flora__C...
- Illegal Poaching Database
Archive of articles, cases, and statistics relating to the crime of animal poaching.
shop.store.yahoo.com/animalworldnetwork/bilpoacdat1.html
- Operation Game Thief (OGT)
Provides a confidential, easy, and effective way to report wildlife violations to the Nevada Department of Wildlife.
www.stoppoaching.org
- U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Office of Law Enforcement@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Fish_and_Wildlife_Service/Office_of_Law_Enforcement
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