Freely available RSS feeds from official sources, such as organizations dedicated to ending the illegal wildlife trade to include TRAFFIC, WildAid and the Coalition Against Wildlife Trafficking (CAWT), were used to obtain information on illegal wildlife and wildlife product confiscations. In addition, information was obtained from freely available, disparate Internet sources (including discussion forums, mailing lists, news media outlets and blogs) by utilizing specific keyword search strings. For a 1-year period beginning August 1, 2010, English-language reports were collected on the illegal wildlife trade and interception points were analyzed (Fig. 1 ). When available, the origin and intended destinations of illegal wildlife products were also collected to aid in the development of proposed wildlife trade routes and hot-spot regions. Lastly, a comprehensive list of commonly traded species was compiled along with the potential zoonotic diseases that could be spread from traded animals to humans.