Asian governments have implemented measures to stop the illegal trade in tigers, but after traditional markets were closed, the trade moved into the online space.[2] An article in the journal Science (Volume 391, Issue 6785, Pages 564-565, February 2026) calls for an end to the illegal cyber trade in tigers in Asia.[2] According to the World WISE database for the period 2007 to 2018, India and Thailand were the main source countries of seized consignments in the international tiger trade, accounting for 82% of all known tiger equivalents.[1] Identified smuggling routes include the Trans-Himalayan route from wild populations in South Asia and multiple Southeast Asian routes through the Mekong Delta, using both wild and farmed tigers.[1] The characteristics of wildlife smuggling, such as camouflage and legalization, vary by product, such as non-shredding jaguar teeth versus shriveled tiger meat.[1] Once the structure of smugglers' networks is understood, heretical approaches from cyber and legal networks can be applied to deploy sensors and checkpoints to detect and dismantle these networks.[1]