Abstract

Illegal wildlife transportation, trade, and consumption have expanded beyond small-scale activities into organized transnational networks involving cooperation between domestic and foreign offenders. These networks facilitate the trafficking of large quantities of rare and endangered wildlife. Moreover, illegal wildlife trade is no longer confined to forests and wholesale markets but has increasingly moved into cyberspace, where offenders employ sophisticated methods to advertise, conduct transactions, and conceal unlawful activities. This development presents new challenges for detecting, preventing, and combating wildlife-related crimes and legal violations.

Keywords: Cyberspace, illegal wildlife trade, People’s Public Security forces, prevention and enforcement, wildlife crime.