Wildlife Justice Commission

From New York to Vienna, our policy team has been sharing Wildlife Justice Commission expertise and recommendations in key global and multilateral forums—helping to shape policy discussions and str...

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Wildlife Justice Commission, Executive Director, Olivia Swaak-Goldman was recently in New York at the United Nations, where governments, experts, and organisations from around the world came togeth...

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On 13 June, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA), acting on intelligence developed by the Wildlife Justice Commissi...

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Wildlife Justice was proud to deliver an oral statement during the UN General Assembly High-Level Debate on “Preventing and Combating Illicit Trafficking in Wildlife and Other Crimes that Affect th...

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At the 35th Session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ), the Wildlife Justice Commission delivered an oral statement urging States to advance stronger criminal justic...

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The illegal pet trade is a multi-million-dollar criminal industry, fuelled by corruption and pushing many species toward extinction. Each year, thousands of rare and endangered animals are traffick...

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🚨 After five years on the run, a suspected wildlife trafficking kingpin has been arrested in Nigeria following a joint operation with the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcemen..

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🎥 In a major 2024 investigation, Wildlife Justice worked with Thai and Malagasy law enforcement agencies to unravel a prolific criminal network supplying the illegal pet trade by smuggling endanger..

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This report by the Wildlife Justice Commission examines the role of tiger facilities in enabling tiger-related wildlife crime in Southeast Asia. The report includes the findings of Operation Ambush...

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Watch how the investigation into Ah Nam unfolded and how he was brought to justice. Nguyen Van Nam, referred to as Ah Nam, was the focus of a Wildlife Justice Commission investigation from 2016 un...

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In 2019, pangolin scales and ivory were being trafficked from Africa to Asia in extraordinary quantities. Then in 2020, triggered by the global shock of the COVID-19 pandemic, pangolin scale and i...

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In 2016, Wildlife Justice held its first and only Public Hearing, involving Vietnam. In response, Vietnamese authorities arrested and indicted several suspects, including a high-level rhino horn tr...

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In April 2021, the Wildlife Justice Commission commenced a three-year project generously funded by the Dutch Postcode Lottery to expand our in-house Intelligence Development Unit (IDU) into a globa...

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In April 2021, the Wildlife Justice Commission commenced a three-year project generously funded by the Dutch Postcode Lottery to expand our in-house Intelligence Development Unit (IDU) into a globa...

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Transnational organised crime is decimating our planet's wildlife. Every twenty-four hours two rhinos are poached. Every second, three sharks are finned. The world's remaining five thousand wild ti...

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“Unlike other illicit commodities, our environment is finite. Once a species is extinct or an ecosystem destroyed, there is no reversal. Waiting is no longer an option.” This powerful statement wa...

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Wildlife Justice Commission at CBD COP16 in Cali for the first time, contributing virtually to a key panel titled "Innovative Strategies for Prevention and Effective Coordination in Combating Crime...

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In 2023, the Wildlife Justice Commission resumed Operation Caesar targeting networks responsible for trafficking primates for the illegal pet trade. Visit our website to learn more about our work...

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Visit our website to learn more about our work with the NCS: https://wildlifejustice.org/

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