Illegal Trafficking

Global Fishing Watch, a non-profit group, is using new technology to fill in a major gap in its monitoring data.

In just four weeks in May and June of 2017 nearly 10,000 ivory items were sold on Yahoo Auction, one of Japan's largest e-commerce platforms.

In the country's southeast Guaviare department, harvested wood rots on the ground while gangs and drug traffickers take over the land for illegal mining and agriculture.