Environmental Crime

Our cutting-edge global research on environmental crime focuses on environmental security, wildlife crime, illegal fishing, corruption and illicit finance.




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Our research seeks to promote a step-change in current efforts to address organised criminal activity that is systematically depleting irreplaceable flora and fauna, driving key species to extinction and irreversibly damaging vital ecosystems worldwide. We seek to chart the shifting dynamics of environmental crime, while identifying opportunities to bolster a global response that all too often fails to treat this activity as large-scale transnational organised crime. Our focus is on enhancing the response to critical enabling activities of environmental crime, such as corruption and money laundering, whilst highlighting areas of convergence across multiple crime types.

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To celebrate this World Wildlife Day, we’d love to introduce you to upcoming work from our OCP (Organised Crime and Policing) team this year.

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Environmental Crime and Climate Security Programme

Combatting the Illegal Wildlife Trade in West and Central Africa: Phase II

Combatting Wildlife Crime in Uganda

Environmental Crime in a Warming World

Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing and Climate Change

Independent Assessment of Illegal Wildlife Trade in the UK

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