The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) logo is pictured on a stand in Berlin. The German Environment Ministry plans to combat environmental crime in collaboration with Interpol and the conservation ...

BERLIN, Germany, February 16, 2025 (ENS) – With new funding, Germany’s Environment Ministry, the nonprofit WWF Germany, and the international police force Interpol are joining forces to stop criminals ...

An illegal toxic dump site in Croatia, the theft of water from a major aquifer in southern Spain, illegal trading of ozone-depleting refrigerants in France: This is just a sampling of the ...

A lack of training, capacity and legislative reform are conspiring to let perpetrators of environmental crime in North Macedonia and Serbia off the hook. The alarm was rung by a caller to the ...

After a roughly 25-year hiatus, Missouri has reconvened an Environmental Crimes Task Force to investigate and prosecute ...

In 2025, environmental crimes spread into corners of the Amazon Basin that had so far largely escaped the rampant plunder of the forest and its inhabitants by criminal networks and regional elites ...

A recent report from the FACT Coalition analyzed 230 cases of environmental crime in Amazon countries over the past decade to better understand how crimes are committed and how the associated profits ...

Members of Colombia's armed forces sweep the landscape for illegal crop plantations. Colombia’s new security policy has put the fight against deforestation front and center, but several challenges ...

A bill before the Washington state Senate would make intentional water pollution, air pollution, and spilling of hazardous waste felonies. Under Washington state law, most environmental crimes are ...

The granting of logging permits in the Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge, has involved a great deal of investigation by judicial authorities. Luis Diego Hernández, the coordinating prosecutor of the ...

Diogo Veríssimo receives funding from the UK Government's Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund. Sally Sinclair receives funding from The Leverhulme Trust Space for Nature Doctoral Scholarships.

The death penalty awaits all Kenyans who commit certain crimes like robbery with violence. But it is not always clear what awaits those who commit environmental crimes. UNEP defines environmental ...