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Is wildlife crime a national security risk?

It reaches security through seven links, from extraction to crime revenue, disease and ecosystem loss; the weakest in open data is who profits.

7 links from nature to security, each rated

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Security framing must not become militarisation: evidence first, rights respected.

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Rebuilt daily from the WildTrace data. Cite: Verma, T. K. (2026). WildTrace: the open atlas of illegal wildlife trade. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.22902819