WWF

Ensure the world’s most iconic species, including tigers, rhinos, and elephants, are secured and recovering in the wild.

TRAFFIC

Working to ensure that wildlife trade is not a threat to the conservation of nature.

Fauna & Flora International (FFI)

FFI adopts a practical, field-based approach focused on safeguarding wild populations of threatened species and preventing poaching for illegal trade.

INTERPOL

The INTERPOL Wildlife Enforcement team helps to disrupt and dismantle transnational organised criminal networks involved in the illegal wildlife trade.

EUROPOL

With dedicated staff working on environmental crime, Europol helps to connect police officers and other crime fighters in the field.

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)

CITES is an international agreement between governments. It aims to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten the species’ survival.

EU Trade in Wild Fauna and Flora

CITES implementation in the EU.

UNEP Environmental crime

The UN Environment Programme takes effort in raising awareness of the growing threat that environmental crime poses to peace and security, sustainable development, and environmental rule of law.

UNODC World Wildlife Crime Report

The World Wildlife Crime Report takes stock of the wildlife crime situation, focusing on illicit trafficking of specific protected species of wild fauna and flora. It provides a broad assessment of the nature and extent of the problem at the global level.

UNODC Wildlife and Forest Crime Analytic Toolkit

The Toolkit by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and International Consortium on Combatting Wildlife Crime (ICCWC) is a technical resource to assist government officials in wildlife and forestry administration, Customs, and other relevant agencies to comprehensively analyse the strengths and weaknesses of preventive and criminal justice responses to wildlife and forest crime.

IUCN Global Justice Institute on the Environment (GJIE)

The mission of the GJIE is to support the role of judges, courts, and tribunals to respond to pressing environmental crises.

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

IUCN is a membership union composed of both government and civil society organisations. It harnesses the experience, resources and reach of its Member organisations and experts. It is the global authority on the status of the natural world and the measures needed to safeguard it.

Eurojust

Eurojust is an agency of the European Union dealing with judicial cooperation in criminal matters among agencies of the Member States.

Eurojust Casework on Environmental Crime

The report summarises the experiences encountered in the nearly 60 cross-border environmental criminal cases referred to Eurojust during the years from 2014 to 2018.

European Network of Prosecutors for the Environment (ENPE)

ENPE promotes a consistent approach to prosecuting environmental crimes across Europe. A dedicated working group explores the significant issues regarding non-compliance with EU wildlife laws.

BirdLife Europe

BirdLife Europe is a partnership of 48 national conservation organisations and one of six regional secretariats that compose BirdLife International. They aim to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources.

Wildlife Justice Commission

The Wildlife Justice Commission works to disrupt criminal networks, deterring transnational organised wildlife crime.

TradeMapper

TradeMapper is an interactive tool to visualise trade data, developed by TRAFFIC with the generous support of WWF-UK and Arcadia.

Wildlife Cybercrime in the European Union

This project aims to disrupt criminals trafficking wildlife in or via the EU using the internet, postal or fast parcel services.

LIFE Nature Guardians

The project’s main objective is to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of actions to combat environmental crimes in Portugal and Spain, especially those committed against wildlife.

LIFE Fight for Survival

The project strategy is to reinforce the international work against the illegal killing, trapping and trading of wild birds, thus contributing to the elimination of the second largest threat to wild bird survival and delivering towards the implementation of the EU Birds Directive.

LIFE Imperial Eagle

The project aims to decrease human-caused mortality of the globally endangered imperial eagle birds with conservation actions in the Pannonian Region.

LIFE Euro Large Carnivores

This project improves coexistence with large carnivores in Europe through communication, cross-border cooperation and knowledge exchange.

LIFE Danube Sturgeons

This project aims to stop the threat to highly endangered sturgeons in the Lower Danube and northwestern Black Sea region caused by illegal fishing and trade. The website is available in 5 languages (EN, BG, SR, RO, UA) and contains essential information for law enforcement officials.

LIFE Balkan Detox

This project raises awareness and strengthens national capacities to fight the problem of wildlife poisoning in the Balkans, which is one of the most important causes of mortality and population decline for numerous threatened and endangered species.

LIFE LifestockProtect

This project intends to improve livestock protection for the direct benefit of wolf conservation in the German-speaking Alpine Region.

LIFE EuroKite

This project ensures cross-border protection of the Red Kite in Europe, endangered due to illegal persecution, by reducing human-caused mortality.

LIFE Themis

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

LIFE Lynx

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.

EFFACE

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.

EFFACE Final synthesis report

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.

EU Wildlife Crime – Study for the ENVI Committee

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.

EU Approach to Combat Wildlife Trafficking

EU Action Plan against Wildlife Trafficking 2016-2020

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 jointly by the EU and its Member States.

Progress report of the EU Action Plan against Wildlife Trafficking 2016-2020

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.

TIFIES Plan

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.

Evaluation of the Action Plan against Wildlife Trafficking 2016-2020

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

EU Strategy to tackle Organised Crime 2021-2025

The Strategy focuses on boosting law enforcement and judicial cooperation, tackling organised crime structures and high priority crimes, removing criminal profits and ensuring a modern response to technological developments. It covers – among others – wildlife crime, especially illegal wildlife trade, noting the devastating consequences.

EU Environmental Crime Network

EnviCrimeNet is an informal network connecting EU police officers and other crime fighters in the field of environmental crime.

Zero Poaching Toolkit

The Toolkit serves as a benchmark for countries to assess their positions and statuses towards achieving Zero Poaching.