Less than 7% of recorded cases of wildlife crime between 2015 and 2020 ended with a court sentence, according to a report by WWF Spain. The data was unveiled at a knowledge-exchange workshop with judicial and police authorities held in Madrid in May 2023, as part of the LIFE SWIPE project. In the absence of […]
At the beginning of May, WWF Adria-Serbia worked with the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Serbia to organize three one-day workshops in Belgrade, Niš and Novi Sad in Serbia. Over 80 representatives from the Environmental Crime Unit and other police units (border police, traffic police) attended the training. The goal of this […]
On March 20th 2023, a delegation of three police representatives from Serbia – Aida Gogalić from the Environmental Crime Unit and coordinator Tamara Jevtović and veterinary Branislav Vilimonović from the Police Training Center for Dog Handlers and Police Dogs– travelled to Hungary for a two-day training program in improving wildlife crime detection through the use […]
Representatives of law enforcement authorities, prosecution services, the judiciary, the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture (responsible for nature conservation in Hungary) and national park directorates met on 30-31 May 2023 in Budapest. The two-day long workshop and closing event of the LIFE SWiPE project provided an opportunity for practitioners to discuss various aspects of the efforts […]
The need for specialization and training in the field of wildlife crime by law enforcement agencies has emerged as one of the key points in the successful prosecution of this illegal activity. To advance in this issue, WWF Slovakia carried out trainings and exchange sessions with environmental police officers and prosecutors this spring as part […]
On 11-13 April 2023, several dozen representatives of law enforcement agencies and the judiciary attended a training workshop organized at the Łódź Zoo by WWF Poland and the National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution (NSJPP) as part of the LIFE SWiPE project. As demonstrated by WWF Poland’s report on wildlife crime, the exchange of […]
The interest of the Romanian authorities in the SWIPE trainings exceeded all expectations – in total, 106 specialists from the criminal justice system in Romania have been trained to better understand trends in wildlife crime and how to improve the prosecution of these crimes. Fauna & Flora, with the support of WWF Romania, organized four […]
In October 2022, Bulgarian prosecutors took part in a groundbreaking two-day training event that marked the beginning of a series of sessions aimed at equipping these legal professionals with the skills and knowledge needed to tackle wildlife crime. The training was organised by WWF Bulgaria and the Association of Prosecutors in Bulgaria (APB), as part […]
Increasing the awareness, knowledge, and capacity of wildlife crime professionals is one of the objectives of the LIFE SWiPE project. As part of this effort, a comprehensive training package on wildlife crime has been developed and it’s now publicly available on the project’s website. Lack of awareness of the scale and impact of wildlife crime, […]
On 17-21 October 2022, a workshop on wildlife crime was held in Goniądz, Poland, by WWF Poland as part of the LIFE SWiPE project. The workshop brought together representatives from the tax and customs service, the police and the prosecutor’s office. Participants shared knowledge on, among other topics, identifying species listed in the Convention on […]