Upholding The Law: The Challenge of Effective Enforcement

A briefing calling upon Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to acknowledge that environmental crime, including wildlife crime, is a form of serious transnational organised crime and to adopt appropriately stringent measures to tackle it effectively.

Among our recommendations, we urge parties to CITES to implement intelligence-led enforcement mechanisms as a means to combating illegal trade in wildlife and ensure proper enforcement.

We further urge parties the utilise all available legal instruments and protocols to combat environmental crime.