Illegal Trafficking

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

• By Alastair Bland

When eight heads arrived at a shipping warehouse in Detroit, the feds uncovered some unsavory details about the little-known trade in human remains.

• By Peter Andrey Smith

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.

• By Shreya Dasgupta

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.

• By Antonio José Paz Cardona