The evaluation will assess what impact the action plan has had on curbing wildlife trafficking and whether it has helped supplement national efforts.

With the Spanish Action Plan against the Illegal Trafficking and International Poaching of Wildlife Species (TIFIES Plan), Spain became the first European country to transpose the EU Action Plan against Wildlife Trafficking (2016-2020) into national legislation.

In 2018, the Commission adopted a progress report on the implementation of the Action Plan. Detailed information can be found under the link regarding individual EU countries’ contributions to the report.

This Action Plan sets out a comprehensive blueprint for joined-up efforts to fight wildlife crime inside the EU and aims to strengthen the EU’s role in the global fight against these illegal activities. The plan has three main strands: better enforcement, enhanced cooperation, and more effective prevention; and runs until 2020 and is being implemented […]

The study commissioned by the European Parliament gives an overview of the state of wildlife crime in Europe based on available documents, EU-TWIX data, and empirical research, including interviews, identifies main routes and species linked to illegal wildlife trade and enforcement deficits.

The final synthesis report of EFFACE draws on previous publications and work conducted in the project. The report highlights the often incomplete nature of data on environmental crime and shows the difficulties in estimating the impacts of environmental crime in a quantitative manner illustrated by examples.

EFFACE assessed the impacts of environmental crime and aimed to provide effective and feasible policy options for combating it from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing on the EU.

Its primary objective is rescuing the Dinaric-SE Alpine lynx population from extinction and preserving it in the long term through introducing additional, healthy animals from another population. The project partners develop science-based management tools for strategic planning to ensure the long-term viability of lynx and work closely with a variety of enforcement agencies.

The project helps prosecutors and interrogative authorities be familiar with the competencies and the protection status of the protected areas in Crete, Greece.