Wildlife Justice Commission Celebrates 10 Years of Fighting Wildlife Crime
The Wildlife Justice Commission has unveiled Fighting Wildlife Crime: A Decade of Impact, a compelling new multimedia web feature reflecting ten years of work to disrupt organised wildlife crime and protect endangered species.
The digital report brings the Commission’s achievements to life through interactive case highlights, infographics, operational footage, and first-hand insights. It documents investigations, strategic policy engagement, and capacity-building efforts, showing how intelligence-led operations and close collaboration with law enforcement have resulted in arrests, prosecutions, and convictions of wildlife traffickers.
Established in 2015 amid Africa’s poaching crisis, the Wildlife Justice Commission set out to dismantle criminal networks trafficking wildlife, timber, and fish by turning evidence into accountability. Over the past decade, it has disrupted 104 criminal networks and supported more than 355 high-level arrests, achieving a 100% conviction rate in completed cases.
Beyond court outcomes, the organisation has exposed the financial flows, infrastructure, and logistics underpinning transnational trafficking networks across Africa and Asia, demonstrating that targeted, intelligence-led enforcement reduces criminal capacity and raises the risk of prosecution for traffickers.
With the ability to deploy investigative teams within 24 hours, the Commission combines speed, agility, and precision to close the impunity gap that has long allowed traffickers to operate unchecked.
Fighting Wildlife Crime: A Decade of Impact is now available on the Wildlife Justice Commission’s website, illustrating the organisation’s continued mission to ensure organised crime cannot drive species to extinction.
Explore the report here: bit.ly/4bl0XOc
