Environmental Crime

Our cutting-edge global research on environmental crime focuses on environmental security, wildlife crime, illegal fishing, corruption and illicit finance.



Environmental Crime

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Our research seeks to promote a step-change in current efforts to address organised criminal activity that is systematically depleting irreplaceable flora and fauna, driving key species to extinction and irreversibly damaging vital ecosystems worldwide. We seek to chart the shifting dynamics of environmental crime, while identifying opportunities to bolster a global response that all too often fails to treat this activity as large-scale transnational organised crime. Our focus is on enhancing the response to critical enabling activities of environmental crime, such as corruption and money laundering, whilst highlighting areas of convergence across multiple crime types.

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To celebrate this World Wildlife Day, we’d love to introduce you to upcoming work from our OCP (Organised Crime and Policing) team this year.

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  • Recording: Gender and Environmental Crime

    Recording: Gender and Environmental Crime

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  • Recording: Paper launch: Illegal Wildlife Trade and Financial Investigations in West Africa

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  • Recording: Paper Launch: Follow the Money: Using Financial Investigation t...

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Cathy Haenlein

Director of Organised Crime and Policing Studies

Organised Crime and Policing

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Tom Keatinge

Director, CFS

Centre for Finance and Security

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Anne-Marie Weeden

Senior Research Fellow | SHOC Network Member - Researcher

Organised Crime and Policing

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Mark Williams

Programme Manager | SHOC Network Member - Researcher

Organised Crime and Policing

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Elijah Glantz

Research Analyst and Project Officer

Organised Crime and Policing

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Jennifer Scotland

Research Analyst

Organised Crime and Policing

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Fellows


Professor Lorraine Elliott

Senior Associate Fellow - Expert in environmental crime, climate and environmental security

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Isabel Hilton OBE

Senior Associate Fellow

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Alexandria Reid

Associate Fellow | SHOC Network Member - Researcher

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Dr Timothy Wittig

Associate Fellow - Expert on wildlife trafficking, illicit economies, and terrorist/threat finance

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Environmental Crime and Climate Security Programme

Environmental Crime and Climate Security Programme

Combatting the Facilitators of Illegal Wildlife Trade in Cameroon

Combatting the Facilitators of Illegal Wildlife Trade in Cameroon

Combatting the Illegal Wildlife Trade in West and Central Africa: Phase II

Combatting the Illegal Wildlife Trade in West and Central Africa: Phase II

Environmental Crime in a Warming World

Environmental Crime in a Warming World

Combatting Wildlife Crime in Uganda

Combatting Wildlife Crime in Uganda

Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing and Climate Change

Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing and Climate Change

Independent Assessment of Illegal Wildlife Trade in the UK

Independent Assessment of Illegal Wildlife Trade in the UK

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