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Kenyan telecom giant Safaricom has joined forces with a coalition of international technology, payments, and cryptocurrency firms to dismantle the financial networks driving the illegal wildlife trade. The initiative was announced at a recent event convened by Prince William and The Royal Foundation’s United for Wildlife taskforce.
According to a report, the coalition brings together technology giants, including Google, Meta, Tiktok, and Alibaba. The companies have committed to completely eradicating wildlife trafficking from their platforms using artificial intelligence (AI)-driven detection and prevention systems to catch illicit listings before sales take place.
While social media and e-commerce platforms focus on front-end listings, the battle is simultaneously moving to the financial back-end. Illegal wildlife trafficking is an extensively lucrative enterprise, with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) estimating it generates up to $23 billion annually. It is a driving factor behind putting an estimated one million plant and animal species at risk of extinction.
To sever these financial lifelines, Safaricom—alongside its parent companies Vodafone and Vodacom—will deploy AI within its anti-money laundering (AML) and transaction monitoring systems. The AI will be integrated across M-Pesa, Africa’s leading mobile money platform, to flag and disrupt suspicious transactions linked to poaching and trafficking syndicates.
Concurrently, mainstream payment processors and major cryptocurrency analytics firms—including Paypal, Chainalysis, TRM Labs, and Luno—have pledged to use blockchain tracking and advanced digital forensics to hunt down and expose cross-border crypto wallets and alternative payment pathways used by wil
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