Wildlife Enforcement Networks from around the world strengthen responses to combat wildlife crime
PRESS RELEASE On 21 and 22 November 2022 more than 100 representatives from networks, law enforcement authorities, inter-governmental organizations and other relevant organizations came together at the 4th Global meeting of Wildlife Enforcement Networks (WENs). Regional networks which comprise a variety of national wildlife law enforcement agencies across the criminal justice chain, including police, customs and prosecutors from around the world, came together to share experiences and enhance collaboration between wildlife law enforcement officers working to combat wildlife crime in
Towards a World Free of Wildlife Crime - International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime launches its Vision 2030
PRESS RELEASE On 18 November, alongside the 19th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CoP19) that is taking place in Panama from the 14 th – 22 nd November 2022, Botswana and Panama highlighted at an event hosted by the International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime (ICCWC) how the Consortium has contributed to their enforcement efforts and to enhance their responses to combat wildlife crime
International Consortium hosts high profile events on Combating Wildlife Crime at CITES CoP19
PRESS RELEASE Next week marks the beginning of the 19 th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CoP19), taking place in Panama from the 14 th – 22 nd November 2022. As part of CoP19, the International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime (ICCWC) will not only report on its work to the Conference of the Parties (see CoP19 Doc. 17.5 ), but will also host
La criminalistique au service de la lutte contre la criminalité liée aux espèces sauvages
Pretoria/Genève, 6 novembre 2013 – Le premier atelier international de formation à l’échantillonnage de l’ADN des rhinocéros a eu lieu en Afrique du Sud les 5 et 6 novembre 2013. Le but de l’atelier était de renforcer les capacités mondiales de lutte contre la vague de braconnage des rhinocéros ayant abouti à l’abattage de plus de 800 animaux en Afrique du Sud, depuis janvier 2013. Le Département de l’environnement d’Afrique du Sud (DEA) et le Laboratoire de génétique vétérinaire de
Les pays d’origine, de transit et de destination se rencontrent afin de développer des stratégies et des actions concrètes pour combattre le braconnage des rhinocéros et le commerce illégal de leurs cornes
Nairobi/Genève, 31 octobre 2013 - Le Secrétariat de la Convention sur le commerce international des espèces de faune et de flore sauvages menacées d’extinction (CITES) a organisé une réunion de l’Équipe spéciale CITES de lutte contre la fraude relative aux rhinocéros, en collaboration avec ses partenaires du Consortium international de lutte contre la criminalité liée aux espèces sauvages (ICCWC), à Nairobi, Kenya, les 28 et 29 octobre 2013. La réunion a rassemblé 52 représentants de 21 pays jouant un rôle
Heads of UNODC and CITES urge wildlife and forest offences to be treated as serious transnational organized crimes
For use of the media only; not an official document. Vienna , 23 April 2013 – At the current Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ), the heads of two United Nations bodies called on countries to recognize wildlife and forest crimes as a serious form of organized crime and strengthen penalties against criminal syndicates and networks profiting from such illegal trade. Following a side-event at the CCPCJ on this issue, Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations
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