Webinar: Meet the Nature Crime Alliance #3

The third edition of the ‘Meet the Nature Crime Alliance’ webinar series takes place on Thursday 3 October, covering issues across wildlife crime, timber traceability, and the global landscape of criminalisation for environmental offences.

This edition will include two presentations from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on their recent pertinent research publications.

Katalin Kecse-Nagy, Wildlife Crime Research Officer, UNODC, will share highlights from the 2024 World Wildlife Crime Report. Produced by UNODC, the report presents characteristics of the illegal wildlife trade, the harms caused by – and the drivers of – wildlife crime, and approaches that have worked to stop these crimes.

Tanya Wyatt, Lead Researcher, Crimes that Affect the Environment, UNODC, will unpack highlights from the Landscape of Criminalization report, which analyzes the state of criminalization of violations of environmental offences across nine environmental areas – deforestation and logging, mining, fishing, air, noise, soil, and water pollution, waste and wildlife. The analysis also includes the penalties for violations and whether this meets the definition of serious crime set out in the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime of at least four years in prison.

Jade Saunders, Executive Director of World Forest ID, will share updates on the organisation’s science-based traceability efforts, aimed at increasing transparency in forest-connected supply chains. By identifying the true origin of samples, World Forest ID’s origin models have directly supported law enforcement in tackling the trade of deforestation-linked commodities, contributing to recent enforcement cases and attracting global media attention.

The webinar takes place on Zoom on Thursday 3 October, 9am ET / 2pm UK time / 3pm CET.

Register for the webinar at this link. 

View previous webinars in the series:

• Meet the Nature Crime Alliance #1
• Meet the Nature Crime Alliance #2