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Viewing wildlife and buying wildlife souvenirs are particularly popular amongst tourists coming to Africa. It is very important to know whether or not that trinket you bought will be acceptable to your airline. Many of them now subscribe to United for Wildlife in an effort to combat the illegal wildlife trade. Transport Taskforce member organizations of United for Wildlife a declaration at Buckingham Palace on the 15th of March. It declares a strong committing to actively reducing the illegal wildlife trafficking. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is one of the signatories.

Many species have been poached to near extinction. Illegal wildlife trade, not only restricted to endangered species, is currently the valued at between $5-20 billion per year, making it the fourth most lucrative global crime after drugs, humans and arms.
The highly linked global transport and logistics system has made illegal trade in wildlife a great deal easier. Poaching is not just a crime against wildlife. More than 1,000 rangers have been killed in the last ten years, which is two per week, every week.

One of the spinoffs of this situation is that many airlines are refusing to transport many wildlife products. The initial focus is on the trafficking of high-risk protected animals. certain big cats, pangolins, and ivory products, on high-risk routes. East Africa is a very hot area because many products originate from- or transit through Kenya, Tanzania and neighbors.