New wildlife crime toolkit launched with CITES help

The International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime (ICCWC) recently launched its Wildlife and Forest Crime Analytic Toolkit on the occasion of the 62nd meeting of the CITES Standing Committee being held in Geneva from 23 to 27 July 2012. ICCWC also announced that it has secured USD 600,000 for the current fiscal year to strengthen national enforcement capacities to fight wildlife crime through the World Bank Development Grant Facility (DGF). The economic, social and environmental impacts of illicit trafficking in wildlife were also recognized in the Rio+20outcome document The Future We Want agreed by the more than 100 Heads of States on 22 June 2012. The Wildlife and Forest Crime Analytic Toolkit presents a collection of tools and resources that its users can choose to analyse wildlife and forest legislation, law enforcement measures, prosecutorial and judicial capacities, factors that dri-Your data has been truncated.