EU: Analytic review of Environmental crime

The corruption related to environmental crime can be so damaging that it creates political instability and entrenches systems of patronage or the elite capture of democratic institutions. While there has been a significant increase in multilateral...

Global Witness on impact of European rubber imports

Global Witness investigates the impact of European rubber imports on the destruction of climate-critical forests in West and Central Africa. It reveals rubber is the European import that poses biggest threat to West and Central Africa’s tropical forests…

Global Witness publishes Annual report 2020

Global Witness campaigns on (i) Ending corporate corruption and improving governance in the natural resources sector (ii) Ending corporate complicity in environmental and human rights abuses (iii) Ending the growth of gas…

Basel on illegal wildlife trade enforcement chain

Basel Institute on Governance summarises lessons from corruption risk assessments with authorities investigating illegal wildlife trade in Africa and Latin America. Effective enforcement against illegal wildlife trade (IWT)…

Norway on curbing wildlife smuggling

To curb smuggling, Norway has been killing confiscated wildlife. In order to uphold a treaty designed to protect animals, many countries have turned to systematic euthanization. Wildlife trafficking experts and…