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The Enivronmental Crime Crisis - Threats to Sustainable Development from Illegal Exploitation and Trade in Wildlife and Forest Resources. A UNEP Rapid Assessment
… CRIME CRISIS A RAPID RESPONSE ASSESSMENT THREATS TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FROM ILLEGAL EXPLOITATION AND TRADE … ‘serious crime’ is defined as an offence punishable by a maximum prison sentence of 14 15 Figure 1. Estimated scale of … uncertainty as some populations are beyond) • Up to a maximum 15% of elephant populations are killed annually in or …
Closing Strategy - Ending Ivory Trade in Hong Kong
… in the context of both biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. TRAFFIC is a strategic alliance of … through joint operations and skills training; • Review maximum penalties for wildlife crimes to levels that reflect … speculating on tusks becoming rarer in the future to yield greater profits. Hence investment behaviour could, in …
ASEAN Handbook on legal cooperation to combat wildlife crime
… I share the goal that biodiversity is the bloodline of sustainable ecosystems and central to human survival on the … Wildlife trafficking is a serious crime: (a) punishable by maximum deprivation of four years imprisonment or a more … are rare species, that local people tap for resin or that yield high-value resin; Import seeds of forest vegetation …
Illicit wildlife trafficking: An environmental economic and social issue
… Ban Ki-moon, World Wildlife Day, March 2014 1) Summary Sustainable use and trade of natural resources is at the … with the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development, including the right to security, to … crime, meaning that national laws should provide for maximum penalties of four years or more in prison. In May …
World Wildlife Crime Report - Trafficking in protected species
… which sets a powerful framework for collective action. The Sustainable Development Goals launched this year include … in isolation, but when combined in great numbers can yield penetrating insight into a hidden world. Seizure data … amendments to it.”2 Fig. 1 Share of CITES parties by maximum penalty possible for violation of CITES regulations, …
Wildlife and Forest Crime Toolkit (Revised Edition)
… Manager, World Customs Organization; Jorge Rios, Chief of Sustainable Livelihoods Unit and Miwa Kato, Programme Officer … mean a conduct, constituting an offence punishable by a maximum deprivation of liberty of at least four years of … and regulation of productivity and sustainable yield, and designing hunting and harvesting plans to set …