WWF Traffic Workflow
Connects directly to the TRAFFIC Wildlife Trade Portal to download wildlife trafficking incident reports for a configured time range, filters them to incidents within a 30km buffer of the Greater Virunga Landscape (GVL) boundary, and produces an interactive dashboard of trafficking trends by species, incident category, and country.
User Guide
Step-by-step instructions for loading, configuring, and running the workflow.
Technical Guide
Deeper look at the workflow's internals — the portal download & CSV merge pipeline, map/chart methodology, and metric calculations.
Troubleshooting
Common errors you may hit while configuring or running the workflow, and how to resolve them.
What it produces
- Summary stat widgets — Total Incidents, Incidents This Year vs Last Year, Most Trafficked Species, Total Suspects Arrested, Total Suspects Convicted, Conviction Rate, and Total Seizures of Ivory (kg)
- An Incidents Map — point map of trafficking incidents coloured by incident category, overlaid on the GVL boundary
- A Species Map — point map of trafficking incidents coloured by mapped species group, overlaid on the GVL boundary
- An Incidents by Species chart and an Incidents by Category chart — time-series bar charts of incident counts per year
- A Summary Table — filterable/sortable table of individual incidents
- A per-group CSV export of the full processed incident dataset
Requirements
A Wildlife Trade Portal account. The workflow connects directly to the wildlifetradeportal.org API with your email and password (or an access token) and searches for incidents recorded within your configured time range, scoped by default to Rwanda, Uganda, and Congo, Democratic Republic of The — no manual CSV export/upload, and no browser, is required. Behind the scenes it exports up to three CSVs (an incident/case export, a species/commodity export, and a trade-route/location export) and merges them on a shared Report ID column. See the User Guide for the exact column breakdown.
The GVL 30km buffer boundary is downloaded automatically from Dropbox at runtime — no local copy is required.
Get started
New to the workflow? Start with the User Guide for a walkthrough of loading the template, connecting your Wildlife Trade Portal account, and configuring the grouping strategy. Running into an error? Check Troubleshooting first.