Box turtles are one of many species looked after by the Turtle Conservancy. The group cares for illegally trafficked turtles once they're confiscated. Nathanael Stanek/The Turtle Conservancy hide caption
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Apollo Quiboloy is shown on his talk show on May 23, 2016, in Davao City, southern Philippines. Aaron Favila/AP hide caption
FWS Inspector Mac Elliot looks over a legal shipment while Braxton, a dog trained to smell heavily trafficked wildlife like reptiles and animal parts like ivory, enthusiastically does his job. Wildlife trafficking is one of the largest and most profitable crime sectors in the world. Estimates of its value range from $7-23 billion annually. Ryan Kellman/NPR hide caption
A still from a video by The Clooney Foundation for Justice showing the Ain Dara archeological site storage and warehouse in the northern Aleppo Governorate, in Syria. The facility was later looted by various armed groups and bulldozed at some point between 2019 and 2020. The Clooney Foundation for Justice hide caption
Three screen grabs from a video that recently went viral in China show a woman chained to a wall in a doorless shed in a rural Chinese village. The video has prompted a heated discussion about the trafficking of women. Screen grabs by NPR/TikTok hide caption
Three screen grabs from a video that recently went viral in China show a woman chained to a wall in a doorless shed in a rural Chinese village. The video got nearly 2 billion views and has prompted a heated discussion about the trafficking of women. Screen grabs by NPR/TikTok hide caption
Lisa Ricchio sued the motel where she was sexually assaulted and held captive under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. Todd Bookman/New Hampshire Public Radio hide caption
Human Trafficking Survivor Settles Lawsuit Against Motel Where She Was Held Captive
Nigerian anti-trafficking activist Blessing Okoedion at the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C., in June. Eslah Attar/NPR hide caption
Josephine Iyamu, who was known to her victims as Madame Sandra, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison by a U.K. court. National Crime Agency hide caption
Alika Kinan was one of eight international activists honored at the State Department for their work against human trafficking. Shelby Knowles/NPR hide caption
Ronny Marty, who's from the Dominican Republic, came to the U.S. with the promise of a job. He ended up living in a tiny apartment with three men, with most of his earnings going back to his employer. Ben de la Cruz/NPR hide caption
A pangolin is released into the wild by officials at a conservation forest in Indonesia in 2013. The animal was among 128 pangolins confiscated by customs officers from a smuggler's boat off Sumatra. Jefri Tarigan/AP hide caption
The World's Most Trafficked Mammal Is One You May Never Have Heard Of
Malaysia, Cuba Taken Off U.S. Human Trafficking Blacklist
A Bulgarian border policeman stands near a barbed wire wall on the border with Turkey in July 2014. Experts believe that about two-thirds of the heroin that enters Europe comes through Bulgaria, and that a third of that moves on to the United States. Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Bulgaria Steps Up Efforts Against Drug Trafficking Across Its Borders
Deuel County Sheriff Adam Hayward shows off a container of confiscated marijuana in Chappell, Neb., in July. Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post/Getty Images hide caption
Nebraska Says Colorado Pot Isn't Staying Across The Border
Brooke Gehring, CEO of Patients Choice and Live Green Cannabis, stands in one of her company's grow houses in Denver. Kirk Siegler/NPR hide caption
Policemen show pictures of body parts found in parcels as they address reporters in Bangkok on Monday. Thai police said two Americans who had tried to send the parts to the U.S. had fled the country. Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters /Landov hide caption
Prostitutes arrested in Guatemala City in 2012, as part of an operation against human trafficking. Johan Ordonez/AFP/Getty Images hide caption