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level pressure by shifting towards different routes or activities. National and international law-
enforcement agencies must be willing and able to adapt to these challenges accordingly.
Addressing these issues will require collaborative efforts amongst a range of organisations. These
must occur on national, regional and international levels. Success will require all stakeholders to
fully accept the dominance of OCGs, brokers and corrupt officials in the illegal ivory trade. The
ivory–terrorism narrative must not distract from the scale of the effort – and resources – needed
to tackle these sophisticated and adaptive high- and low-level criminal and corrupt actors.
