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TRAFFIC Wildlife Trade Portal
The Wildlife Trade Portal is an interactive tool that displays TRAFFIC’s open-source wildlife seizure, incident, and prosecution data, primarily obtained from the media.
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TRAFFIC EU-TWIX
The EU-TWIX database is a restricted access database accessible only to enforcement officers working on CITES issues in Europe. The data stored in this database of European seizures remains the property of national law enforcement agencies reporting them. Currently, all 27 EU Member States, Switzerland, Ukraine, and the UK report data to the database.
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ENPE Environmental case law database
The ENPE case law database supports the network of environmental public prosecutors in the EU by providing them with relevant criminal case law and related documents from the various Member States. It is only available for certain ENPE members, and it covers three areas of environmental law: air pollution, waste and wildlife.
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Legal Atlas Wildlife Trade
Key content of wildlife management, wildlife trade, hunting, Customs, anti-money laundering and organised crime laws and the full texts are identified for over 70 jurisdictions, relation to the entire trade chain is showed.
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Legal Atlas Environmental Crime
It covers a wide variety of legal instruments from constitutions to protected areas, organised crime, money laundering, wildlife, and trade-specific legislation; criminal, environmental, and natural resources laws are included.
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ECOLEX
This database is an information service on environmental law, operated jointly by FAO, IUCN and UNEP. Its purpose is to build capacity worldwide by providing the most comprehensive possible global source of information on environmental law.
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IUCN WILDLEX
It is an information service on wildlife-related law operated by IUCN. Its purpose is to build capacity worldwide by providing free and easy access to wildlife-related legislation and case-law, employing modern technology. This database mainly focuses on the criminal aspects of statutory and judicial responses to wrongful behaviours affecting wildlife. Domestic laws, national court decisions, a basic analysis of those court decisions and relevant literature on wildlife crime are included.
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Species+
It provides information on globally protected species. Developed by UNEP-WCMC and the CITES Secretariat, it is designed to assist Parties with implementing the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) and other multilateral environmental agreements. It includes all species covered by CITES and CMS , as well as those included in the EU Wildlife Trade Regulations. It is the go-to place to check if a species is CITES- or EU Annex-listed.
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Global Atlas for Environmental Justice
The EJ Atlas collects stories of communities struggling for environmental justice from around the world. It also attempts to serve as a virtual space for those working on EJ issues to get information, find other groups working on related issues, and increase the visibility of environmental conflicts. The database has a biodiversity conservation category.
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BirdLife Hungary TOTEM
This database serves to collect mortality cases of wild animals that died for various reasons. It targets the leading causes of destruction that affect wild amphibian, reptile, bird and mammal species (e.g. poisoning, electrocution, collision with vehicles, window collisions, shooting, etc.).
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Mortality database of the Vulture Conservation Foundation
This restricted database includes more than 3100 mortality records recorded by more than 27 organisations across 20 European States between 1968 and 2021. The four European vulture species are represented in the database, the majority of cases concern the Eurasian Griffon Vulture. The main mortality causes are poisoning and collisions.
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UNODC SHERLOC Sharing Electronic Resources on Laws and Crime
The SHERLOC portal is an initiative to facilitate the dissemination of information regarding the implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, the three Protocols thereto and the international legal framework against terrorism, also containing information on wildlife crime.
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Global Environmental Crime Tracker – Environmental Investigation Agency
It contains up-to-date data collected from publicly available sources (government reports, enforcement agency press releases and non-governmental and academic papers, media). It covers criminal activities in Asia, Africa and Europe. At present, it focuses on elephants, pangolins, rhinos, Tigers, leopards in their Asian range, Snow Leopards, Clouded Leopards, the Totoaba Fish and timber.
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Case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)
The CJEU interprets EU law, including environmental regulations, to make sure it is applied in the same way in all EU countries and settles legal disputes between national governments and EU institutions.
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Case law of the European Court of Human Rights
Database of cases of the international court established by the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which rules on individual or State applications alleging violations of the civil and political rights set out in the ECHR, including environmental matters.
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Portal for e-justiceBulgaria
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National Parks Directorates reports on controlsBulgaria
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Regional Inspections for the Environment and Waters, monthly reportsBulgaria
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State Attorney Office of the Republic of Croatia, annual reportsCroatia
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National court case databaseHungary
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National court case database (official site)Romania
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National court case databaseRomania
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General Prosecutors Office of the Slovak Republic, annual reportsSlovakia
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National court case databaseSlovakia
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The Analytical Centre of the Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic, Justice statistics and annual reportSlovakia
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Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic Police, crime statisticsSlovakia
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Slovak Environmental Inspectorate, annual reportsSlovakia
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Financial Administration Annual ReportsSlovakia
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Database of bird crime cases and other illegal activities where birds are victims (RPS Raptor Protection of Slovakia)Slovakia
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National court case databaseSpain
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National court case databaseUkraine
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National court case databaseUkraine
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The Prosecutor General Office’s statistical reportsUkraine
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State Fishery Agency of Ukraine statistical reports on fishery conservationUkraine
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State Environmental Inspectorate of Ukraine statistical reportsUkraine
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LIFE BalkanDetox Mortalily database
Illegal wildlife poisoning incidents across the Balkans are recorded in this database. Such a tool can provide a more precise overview of the problem, enabling combating wildlife poisoning to implement more accurate anti-poisoning actions to tackle this severe threat.
Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Republic of North Macedonia, Serbia
