New Frontiers in the Fight Against Environmental and Wildlife Crimes
The exploitation of the environment underpins the ecosystem of organized crime. However, the issue receives insufficient political attention, in part perhaps because the scale and harms of the phenomenon remain largely ignored or misunderstood. ECO-SOLVE aims to plug some of those gaps, with innovative approaches to developing and delivering data to those who can benefit from it. Join us to explore how.
Environmental crime is a broad category that includes illicit activities that damage the environment – through overexploitation of finite natural resources or pollution – all of which often have adverse consequences for human health and livelihoods. From illicit trade in protected animal and plant species, overfishing, illicit logging and mining, to trafficking of minerals and fuels and waste trafficking – many of these crimes happen at the intersection between the licit and illicit, making detection challenging.
On 3 October 2024, the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime is convening an online event exploring the critical need for innovative approaches and data in combating environmental and wildlife crimes.
The event will spotlight our new approach towards monitoring the online illegal wildlife trade (IWT), and explore linkages between corruption and environmental crime. We will discuss the vital roles of regulation and law enforcement in these fields and explore what communities need and can offer to this urgent and pernicious threat. We will unveil our latest research outputs of the programme: the Global Trend Report and Global Monitoring System, under the ECO-SOLVE project funded by the European Union, to set the stage for a new strategic direction in responding to environmental crime.
The webinar, moderated by award-winning multimedia journalist Thin Lei Win, is aimed at promoting a global conversation with key experts on better informed responses to environmental and wildlife crime.
With the backing of the European Union under the Global Illicit Flows (GIFP) programme, this initiative represents a significant step forward in global efforts to preserve biodiversity, enforce environmental regulations, and protect vulnerable species and ecosystems from transnational organized crime.
***Simultaneous interpretation will be available in English, Spanish and Portuguese***
***Habrá interpretación simultánea disponible en inglés, español y portugués***
***O evento terá interpretação simultânea disponÃvel em inglês, espanhol e português***
About The Speakers
Director - Observatory of Illicit Economies in Asia-Pacific, GI-TOC
Representative - Asia and the Pacific, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime
GI-TOC, Law Enforcement and Organized Crime Consultant
A recognized expert with 30 years in the field of wildlife law enforcement, including more than a decade as a senior manager with the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
Founder/CEO, Conserv Congo
A wildlife activist and a wildlife criminal investigator from the Democratic Republic of Congo
Chief Executive Officer, Chief of Enforcement and Chief of Communications, Wildlife Trust of India (WTI)
Jose serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Wildlife Trust of India. He has more than two decades of experience in the field of Countering IWT across the country.
Moderators
Thin Ink
Award-winning multimedia investigative journalist with extensive experience reporting on humanitarian issues from a global perspective, particularly on the intersection of food systems and climate change.