Wildlife and forest crime
Understanding the Female Wildlife Offender: Lessons from the Case Files
Closed case reviews indicate that gender norms might be as harmful as they are helpful in understanding female involvement in wildlife crime, with better evidence needed to inform enforcement strategies. The role of women in relation to wildlife crime is viewed through a lens of localised gender norms, social conventions…
Grevis Bialeka Mutendi
Area of Expertise: Corruption, Firearms, IUU fishing, War and conflict, Wildlife and forest crime
Raluca-Ioana MOCANU
Institution: University of Bucharest
Area of Expertise: Contraband / counterfeit products, Corruption, Crime prevention and criminal justice, Criminal networks, Discourse, Drug trafficking, Extortion, Fraud, Gangs, Illicit cigarettes and tobacco, Law, Mafia, Modern slavery and human trafficking, Money laundering, Organ trafficking, Prisons, Recruitment, State control, Terrorism, Trafficking in cultural property, Wildlife and forest crime
Marco Codispoti
Area of Expertise: Corruption, Criminal networks, Cryptocurrency, Cybercrime, Drug trafficking, Extortion, Financial flows, Gangs, Intelligence, Mafia, Modern slavery and human trafficking, Nuclear smuggling, Policing, Terrorism, Threat assessment, Trafficking in cultural property, War and conflict, Wildlife and forest crime
Iisa Kosonen
Institution: London School of Economics and Political Science
Area of Expertise: Crime prevention and criminal justice, Criminal networks, Drug trafficking, Fraud, Gangs, Intelligence, IUU fishing, Mafia, Maritime crime and piracy, Modern slavery and human trafficking, Money laundering, Policing, Terrorism, Threat assessment, War and conflict, Wildlife and forest crime
Conservation NGOs can Boost Financial Investigations into Illegal Wildlife Trade – An Opportunity for Cross-Sector Collaboration
In recent years, academic research on the frequency of financial investigations into illegal wildlife trade (IWT) has been growing, both in volume and in strength of voice. The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) regularly publishes reports on the movements of profits from IWT, and the Financial Action Taskforce (FATF) – the…
Illegal Wildlife Trade’s ‘Frenemy’: Navigating the implications of China’s BRI Expansion in West Africa
Can China become an asset in the fight against illegal wildlife trade (IWT)? With the construction of the Chinese-financed and built Lekki Deep Sea Port in Nigeria, China continues to expand into West Africa as part of its Blue Economic Passage project, an aspect of the larger Belt and Road…
Lauren Young
Institution: Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI)
Area of Expertise: Wildlife and forest crime
Cheating the System: Where Permits Come as Freely as the Wildlife
Urgent action is needed to modernise the operation of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), to prevent the systematic ‘laundering’ of threatened species such as cheetahs. The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) published in September 2021 a stark reminder of…