The National Wildlife Property Repository in Commerce City, Colo. is home to more than one million illegal wildlife products. If you can imagine it, the warehouse has it—from stuffed tiger foetuses to alligators dressed up as waiters. For many endangered species, this is the end of the line.

An illegally poached fish hangs in the Wildlife Property Repository in Commerce City, CO.
Seahorses in the Wildlife Property Repository.
CEJ graduate student Kelsey Ray, left, and Scripps Fellow Scott Wallace visit the Wildlife Property Repository in Commerce City, CO.
Sonya Doctorian photographs poached wildlife in the Wildlife Property Repository, where all illegally poached wildlife products that are confiscated being smuggled into or out of the United States is stored.
Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism Naomi Lubbick at the Wildlife Property Repository.
Scripps Fellows in Environmental Journalism Laura Krantz, left, and Sena Christian visit the National Wildlife Property Repository.
CEJ graduate student Ted Phillips visits the U.S.F.W.S. Wildlife Property Repository
CEJ graduate student Ted Phillips visits the U.S.F.W.S. Wildlife Property Repository.
A small sampling of some of the products made out of protected wildlife and confiscated by the U.S.F.W.S. and stored at the Wildlife Property Repository.
A small sampling of some of the products made out of protected wildlife and confiscated by the U.S.F.W.S. and stored at the Wildlife Property Repository.
A poached and stuffed flamingo at the U.S.F.W.S. Wildlife Property Repository.
Alligators and crocodiles made into a variety of products that are illegal to bring into the United States are stored at the U.S.F.W.S. Wildlife Product Repository in Commerce City, CO.
Alligators and crocodiles made into a variety of products that are illegal to bring into the United States are stored at the U.S.F.W.S. Wildlife Product Repository in Commerce City, CO.
Fellows in a room
A special agent with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a photo from a wildlife crime investigation.
Fur coats made from endangered species that were confiscated by agents with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are on display at the repository.
Coleen Schaefer runs the U.S.F.W.S. Wildlife Property Repository.
A poached and stuffed tiger that was confiscated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is on display at the Wildlife Property Repository in Commerce City, CO.
A poached and stuffed ocelot that was confiscated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is on display at the Wildlife Property Repository in Commerce City, CO.
Michael Kodas, Deputy Director of the Center for Environmental Journalism, takes a photo in the U.S.F.W.S. Wildlife Product Repository while Scott Wallace, a Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism documents the scene in the background.
A stuffed lion confiscated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service resides in the Wildlife Property Repository.