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Wildlife & Forest Crime Analytic Toolkit
This toolkit is intended to serve as an initial entry point for national governments, international actors, practitioners and scholars to better understand the complexity of wildlife and forest crime, and to serve as a framework around which a prevention and response strategy can be developed.
Key Points in Document:
- This toolkit is intended to serve as an initial entry point for national governments, international actors, practitioners and scholars to better understand the complexity of wildlife and forest crime, and to serve as a framework around which a prevention and response strategy can be developed.
- The Toolkit provides an inventory of measures that can assist in the analysis of the nature and extent of wildlife and forest offenses, and in deterring and combating these offenses. It is also intended to contribute to an understanding of the various factors that drive wildlife and forest offenses to integrate the information and experience gained from such analysis into national, regional and international strategies.
- The toolkit has been developed based on:
- Lessons learned from national and international efforts to curtail illegal trade in wildlife, plants, animal derivatives and plant material,
- Scholarly analyses and the examination of cases, and
- Consultations with key stakeholders and relevant experts.
Citation: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Wildlife and Forest Crime Analytic Toolkit. New York: United Nations. (2012).
