Saving Wildlife through Multilateral Cooperation in Africa
Press Release: Saving Wildlife through Multilateral Cooperation in Africa 20 December 2023: The impact of wildlife and forest crime across the African continent is significant and far-reaching. It degrades vulnerable ecosystems already fragilized by over-exploitation and rapid urbanization as well as weakens criminal justice systems. Organized criminal networks benefit from a lack of coordinated and harmonized response and exploit loopholes to engage in wildlife trafficking and illegal logging. The transnational and constantly evolving nature of wildlife and forest criminal networks must be di...
Source: unodc.org