Despite being one of the highest value areas of crime globally, with links to organized and violent crime, wildlife crime is falling down the list of policing priorities due to lack of data, resource, ...

The UN today adopted a historic resolution on wildlife crime. Faced with an unprecedented surge in wildlife crime, the UN today adopted a historic resolution committing all countries to ramp up their ...

The illegal wildlife trade threatens many species worldwide but also jeopardizes local communities’ well-being and livelihoods, breaks down law and order in society, compromises people’s safety and ...

Protecting the world’s endangered wildlife is a major law enforcement challenge. Poachers, often paid by organized criminal networks, have vast wilderness areas in which to operate. Rangers and police ...

The report was produced by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime using data on thousands of species and seizures from more than 120 countries. It found that trafficking is faciliated by ...

The International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime (ICCWC) consists of five organizations: the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora ...

Wildlife criminals are quickly learning to fear the COBRA Initiative. Its latest crackdown – Operation COBRA III in May – was the largest ever co-ordinated international law enforcement operation ...

Yury Fedotov is Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs And Crime and Director-General of the United Nations Office in Vienna. 30 September 2014 September 2014, No. 2 Vol.LI, Illegal ...

When most people hear terms like poaching, wildlife trafficking or illegal wildlife trade, they probably think of threatened species such as elephants, rhinos, tigers or sharks. Geographically, ...

Global police and customs officials have concluded the most widespread environmental crime operation ever organized, involving 109 countries and resulting in nearly 2,000 seizures of protected ...