In Plane Sight: Wildlife Trafficking in the Air Transport Sector
| Author | Mary Utermohlen and Patrick Baine (C4ADS, for the USAID ROUTES Partnership) |
|---|---|
| Published | 2018 |
| Format | Report |
| Original | Read the original |
TL;DR — A 2018 C4ADS study of nine years of seizure data showing how ivory, rhino horn, pangolins, reptiles, birds and other wildlife are smuggled through airports and airlines.
Written by C4ADS for the USAID-funded ROUTES Partnership (Reducing Opportunities for Unlawful Transport of Endangered Species), which brings together C4ADS, Freeland, IATA, TRAFFIC and WWF with airlines and governments. It updates the previous year’s report using open-source seizure records collected by C4ADS analysts, adding new datasets on pangolin, marine-product and mammal seizures.
The report is organised by commodity and region, with airport-by-airport analyses, a section on new flight routes and organised crime, and recommendations on seizure reporting. Appendices include World Customs Organization and US Fish & Wildlife seizure data and tools for airlines and airports.
What it is: a data-driven NGO research report funded by USAID and published by the authors.
Where this came from
- A copy saved in October 2026.
- Published by the authors at C4ADS (PDF: https://c4ads.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/In-Plane-Sight-C4ADS.pdf).
214 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.