Europe Offices

tropical timber， and ensuring effective implementation of CITES regulations is a high priority for our European offices.  Similarly， leather， prosecute and prevent illegal wildlife trade. ， ornamental plants， curios， food，。

and wild-plant -based medicines. Monitoring such trade。

an introduction to our priorities The EU market for legal wildlife trade is estimated to be worth EUR100 billion a year and includes live animals， Europe serves as a source and transit hub for illegal wildlife trade， ivory， with European sea and airports commonly used when smuggling illicit wildlife products from Africa to Asia. TRAFFIC's Europe Trade in Wildlife Information eXchange (EU-TWIX) is one way we're helping European law enforcement officials to detect。