Daniel Stiles

Daniel Stiles has been an independent wildlife trafficker investigator since 1999, specializing first in market studies of endangered live wildlife and their derivative products. His research has provided key data on trafficked live wildlife and products and that has been used by UN agencies, the World Bank, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and TRAFFIC. Prior to that, he worked in academia and the UN in the field of past and present natural resource use and management. Since 2015 Dan has been focusing on wildlife online trafficking and investigating transnational organized crime networks and transport methods and routes. He has written or contributed to reports by the UN Environment Programme, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, IUCN, TRAFFIC, the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime and a number of conservation NGOs.