CITES is Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.It was initiated by the INTERPOL Wildlife Crime Working Group and coordinated jointly by the WCO and INTERPOL, with the backing of the CITES Secretariat and the International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime (ICCWC).
Operation Thunder 2021 was the fifth operation of its kind which was by fat the largest with involvement of 118 countries.Since its inception “Thunder” operations have seen some 8,000 seizures of protected wildlife and forestry species and the arrest of more than 3,000 offenders.Operation Thunder began in 2017, since then it is conducted annually as a multilateral operation.High tech customs document fraud for export, transit, and import.Use of online platforms for transactions.increase in illegal money transfers to launder wildlife items & timber crime.The Results Global Wildlife Trafficking – Trends Searches targeted illegally traded CITES-listed specimens. Thousands of cars, trucks, boats and cargo transporters suspected of transporting protected wildlife and timber were searched, often with specialist sniffer dogs and X-ray scanners.The Operation was a month-long (1-31 October) exercise involving Customs, Police, financial intelligence units and wildlife and forestry enforcement agencies in 118 countries.A worldwide enforcement operation codenamed Operation Thunder against wildlife and timber crime coordinated by the World Customs Organization (WCO) and INTERPOL has disrupted crime networks and seen hundreds of arrests worldwide.
0 kommentar(er)
