Kenya Wildlife Trafficking Assessment

However, the country’s role in wildlife trafficking in the air sector appears to be declining. In 2015, Kenya was linked to 26% of known trafficking instances involving Africa, but the country accounted for fewer than 8% of instances from 2016-2019. While the volume of known ivory trafficking instances along Kenyan air routes has remained constant in recent years (2017-2019), the number of known instances of other species has decreased. Today, small-scale, worked ivory is the most commonly smuggled wildlife product in known Kenyan trafficking instances.