TikTok Joins the Coalition

At TikTok, our aim is to maintain a supportive environment that enables our community to focus on what matters to them; being creative, finding community, and having fun. We work around the clock to maintain this environment by developing policies to help tackle emerging risks, and we focus on building pioneering safety features.

One essential part of our efforts is collaboration with partner organisations to inform, shape and strengthen our approach to safety. Today, we are pleased to announce that TikTok has joined the Coalition to End Wildlife Trafficking Online. Established in 2018 by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), TRAFFIC and IFAW, the Coalition brings together e-commerce, search, and social platforms across the world to reduce wildlife trafficking online.

New Facebook User Alert

New Facebook alert informs users about wildlife trafficking

Since 2016, Facebook and WWF have been working together to address wildlife trafficking by detecting and removing illicit activity that fuels the trade in wildlife and its products on one of the largest social media platforms in the world. As part of this effort, Facebook has launched a new pop-up interstitial alert message that informs users about illegal wildlife trade when certain wildlife-related search words are entered.

Poshmark Joins the Coalition

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Leading marketplace Poshmark becomes a partner in fighting online wildlife trafficking

In celebration of World Elephant Day on August 12th, IFAW is excited to announce Poshmark as a new company member of the Coalition to End Wildlife Trafficking Online. Poshmark – a leading social marketplace where people can buy and sell new or gently used clothing, shoes, accessories, and home goods – is the first fashion-centric e-commerce company to join the Coalition. As a leading marketplace to buy and sell apparel in the US and Canada, Poshmark is encouraging the industry to become a key partner in fighting online wildlife trafficking.

Wildlife trafficking—the buying and selling of protected species and products made from them—is a multi-billion dollar industry that drives poaching and decimates a variety of animal populations, including elephants, rhinos, tigers, and pangolins. Disrupting these networks takes an integrated and international approach, which is why IFAW, WWF, and TRAFFIC are collaborating with companies across continents to unite the online technology industry and maximize impact for reducing wildlife cybercrime through the Coalition.

Private sector partners, such as Poshmark, play a key role in ending wildlife trafficking by eliminating the available marketplaces for traffickers to operate online. As a Coalition partner, Poshmark has updated its prohibited items policy to align with the Coalition’s Prohibited Wildlife Policy Framework. Items related to the illegal trade of live animals, or items resulting from the poaching of protected species, are officially banned from being sold on Poshmark.

For more information on the Coalition, please see the progress report published in March 2020.

Online-Marktplatz „Deine Tierwelt“

Der Online-Marktplatz „Deine Tierwelt” verbietet ab sofort den Handel mit geschützten Tieren auf seinem Portal. Diese Entscheidung resultiert aus Gesprächen zwischen „Deine Tierwelt“ und dem IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare). Die Änderung der Nutzungsbedingungen betrifft die Arten, die in der EU-Artenschutzverordnung auf Anhang A und B geführt werden, wie z. B. der Graupapagei und der Madagaskar Taggecko.

Deine Tierwelt joins the Coalition

Dem Tierschutz und dem Kampf gegen illegalen Welpenhandel hat sich DeineTierwelt bereits seit Langem aktiv verschrieben. Der logische nächste Schritt: Gemeinsam mit dem International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) sagen wir jetzt auch dem illegalen Wildtierhandel den Kampf an.