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Download logoWith environmental crime ranking as the world’s third largest illegal trade, INTERPOL has joined calls at the United for Wildlife (UfW)
The operation was launched by Interpol and lasted for a period of one month.
Police Target the Most Lucrative of Environmental Crimes LYON, France, February 16, 2021 (ENS) – A decade of forestry crime operations, fighting the looting of natural resources such as timber and charcoal in some of the world’s poorest countries, has given the international police force, Interpol, some powerful tools to carry on the fight against its powerful adversaries. Al-Shabaab, a violent terrorist group responsible for major attacks in Somalia and Kenya, has been one of the main beneficiaries of the illegal charcoal trade. Illegal loggers cut a rare rainforest tree into planks. ...