Wildlife Justice Commission I Fighting Organised Wildlife Crime

01 July 20221 July 2022

Protecting endangered marine species and conserving our oceans: discussing the criminal justice approach

The Wildlife Justice Commission, together with Sri Lanka, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and United Nations Ocean Decade co-organised a side event on 29 June on “Crime, corruption, and environment: a criminal justice approach for ocean action and achieving SDG 14”.

21 June 202221 June 2022

The Wildlife Justice Commission publishes its 2021 Annual Report

In 2021, the Wildlife Justice Commission sent a strong message that the risk/reward ratio for wildlife crime is changing by facilitating the arrests of 32 high-level wildlife trafficking suspects and seizure of one of the largest seizures of pangolin scales since 2019. 

07 June 20228 June 2022

Prosecutors and forestry officials in Lao PDR receive training to step up the fight against wildlife crime

To strengthen the legal approach to wildlife crime in the Golden Triangle Region, the Wildlife Justice Commission, in collaboration with WWF, provided a training to local prosecutors and forestry officials in Lao PDR to improve their knowledge base and introduce them to a set of techniques that would allow for more efficient prosecution of wildlife crime.

25 May 20227 June 2022

CCPCJ Panel discussion on the convergence of environmental crimes: recommendations and takeaways

The past few decades, we have not only witnessed a rise in environmental crime, but also its convergence with other forms of organised crime like the trafficking of humans, drugs and firearms. These facts set the starting point of a panel discussion held during the 31st session of the CCPCJ.

About the Wildlife Justice Commission

Our mission is to disrupt and help dismantle the criminal networks that profit from the trafficking of wildlife, timber and fish, a major crime that brings species to extinction and puts global security and public health at risk.

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Protecting endangered marine species and conserving our oceans: discussing the criminal justice approach

The Wildlife Justice Commission publishes its 2021 Annual Report

Prosecutors and forestry officials in Lao PDR receive training to step up the fight against wildlife crime

CCPCJ Panel discussion on the convergence of environmental crimes: recommendations and takeaways

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Convergence of wildlife crime with other forms of organised crime

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