TRAFFIC Bulletin-spreads. © TRAFFIC.
TRAFFIC Skin and Bones report-spread. © TRAFFIC.
In 2010/11, The Rufford Foundation provided a grant of £50,000 to TRAFFIC.
The Rufford Foundation provides essential support to TRAFFIC’s efforts to ensure that wildlife trade is not a threat to the conservation of nature. This includes support for leadership of work to reduce illegal trade in timber and marine fisheries products, and to maintain legal trade within sustainable levels. Rufford Foundation funding is also supporting work to bring information on trade in timber, marine fish and other wildlife products to a global audience.
TRAFFIC’s timber trade work is focused on bridging efforts to strengthen trade controls within exporting countries to new import controls entering into force in the USA and EU. This includes support for training workshops and application of a timber trade “legality framework” to identify legal timber. Shark and tuna species remain a high priority for work to reduce illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fisheries. TRAFFIC is also examining the application of international agreements such as CITES and regional fisheries management agreements across a wide range of marine species.
The Rufford Foundation is also supporting production of TRAFFIC publications, including reports on the global trade in tiger parts and trade in owls in India, and the TRAFFIC Bulletin. The Bulletin, the world’s only journal focusing exclusively on wildlife trade, is provided in hard copy to approximately 4,000 policy-makers, researchers, enforcement officials, conservation and development professionals, teachers and students in over 150 countries. It is also freely available from TRAFFIC’s website (click on logo below) maintenance of which is supported by The Rufford Foundation.
