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The Environmental Crime programme2 evolved and
diversified in 2014, to cover issues including electronic waste,
illegal fisheries, illegal logging, and the poaching of wildlife
and other resources. Developed jointly with the UN Office
on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the International Criminal
Police Organization (INTERPOL), and the Convention on
International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna
and Flora (CITES), it receives project funding from a range of
donors. The programme supports national and international
law enforcement initiatives to combat transnational crime,
mainly through the development of better information and
analysis techniques, preparation of practical manuals and
field training for detection and enforcement personnel.
Illegal trade in wildlife was a major topic of the Ministerial
discussions of the first United Nations Environment
Assembly (UNEA) in June 2014. GRID-Arendal provided
substantive input to the InformationDocument informing
7. Programme Delivery and Results
1 Environmental Crime
Strengthening field operations to combat
wildlife poaching
Extract from an e-mail received from J M Lyimo, Project
Manager, Ugalla Game Reserve, Tanzania, 14 August 2014:
“I am writing to … appreciate the [tracking and crime scene
management] training my Game Wardens received from
Rosemery Kweka two weeks ago … we had a group comprising
of young to old wardens whom were all experienced with field
works (Antipoaching) but doing it their own way (old and local
fashioned) … to be honest thing have changed alot. If you visit
Ugalla today and join the patrol team, its easy to identify those
wardens who attended tracking and crime scene management
training and those who didn’t. We are now encouraging those
who attended training to train their fellows …”
SIGNIFICANT OUTCOME EC
2.
Forest rangers training in Tanzania. Photo: Rosemary Kweka