Overview
- The United for Wildlife business forum convened by Prince William on Monday, June 22, saw major tech platforms publicly pledge to work with the charity to remove illegal wildlife listings and develop AI tools to spot traffickers.
- Telecommunications firms Vodafone, Vodacom and Safaricom committed to deploy artificial intelligence to monitor transactions and detect money flows linked to wildlife crime.
- Several leading cryptocurrency companies pledged to expand blockchain tracing and to disrupt illicit transfers that fund trafficking, offering to share analytics with investigators.
- At the Earthshot Prize Impact Assembly the next day Prince William showcased five years of finalists’ results, announced new public–private scaling partnerships and confirmed Mumbai as the host city for the 2026 awards.
- The announcements are pledges that now require technical development, cross-platform data sharing, legal alignment and independent verification before they can measurably disrupt trafficking and protect people and ecosystems on the ground.