environmental crime

Environmental crimes can be broadly defined as illegal acts which directly harm the environment. They include: illegal trade in wildlife; smuggling of ozonedepleting substances (ODS); illicit trade in hazardous waste; illegal, unregulated, and unreported fishing; and illegal logging and the associated trade in stolen timber.

Meet our Speakers

We've gathered some of the top experts in the field to discuss this topic. With years of experience between them, they're well-equipped to offer invaluable insights and perspectives.

Radha Barooah

Radha Barooah

Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

Juliana Ferreira

Juliana Ferreira

Executive Director - South Am Office, Freeland / EWC

Dr Freedom Onuoha

Dr Freedom Onuoha

Department of Political Science, University of Nigeria, Nsukka

Iryna Soldatenko

Iryna Soldatenko

V.N.Karazin Kharkiv National University, Dep. of Applied Sociology and Social Communications

Alastair Nelson

Alastair Nelson

Conservation Synergies and GI-TOC

Bram Ebus

Bram Ebus

Ysaac Chavely Mbile Nguema

Ysaac Chavely Mbile Nguema

Youth Intra Dialogue on Europe and Africa (Y-IDEA)

Danielle Marais

Danielle Marais

Stellenbosch University

Nikita Hiralal

Nikita Hiralal

Centre for Development Studies, University of Cambridge

Caroline Chebet

Caroline Chebet

Conservation reporter at The Standard Group, Kenya

Ngum Awah F. Faith

Ngum Awah F. Faith

Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime (GI-TOC)

Billy Kyte

Billy Kyte

GI-TOC Expert

Prof Phillip Cassey

Prof Phillip Cassey

ARC Industry Laureate Fellow, Adelaide University

Dr Michelle Anagnostou

Dr Michelle Anagnostou

University of Oxford

Tevita Naikasowalu

Tevita Naikasowalu

The Ba Ironsands Project

Eugene Mondu

Eugene Mondu

Forest Restoration Project Director

Marik Waoute Patrick

Marik Waoute Patrick

Chief of Solwota (sea) of Erakor Council of Tribal Chiefs

Natasha Khan

Natasha Khan

University of the South Pacific

John Scanlon

John Scanlon

former Secretary-General of CITES, Chair of the UK IWT Challenge Fund

Ana Carolina Alfinito

Ana Carolina Alfinito

Amazon Watch

Barbara Souto

Barbara Souto

Rodrigo Pedroso

Rodrigo Pedroso

Freelancer journalist

Dyhia Belhabib

Dyhia Belhabib

Bel Investigations Inc.

Jennifer Scotland

Jennifer Scotland

Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies

Anna Saito

Anna Saito

University of Hamburg

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Talks

Towards a ‘blue’ criminology: How should we study transnational organised crime at sea?

01 December 2021, 01:00 PM

Scott Edwards

Mercedes Rosello

Anna Sergi

Nigel South

Tim Edmunds

Organised oil crime in Nigeria. The Delta paradox: Organised criminals or community saviours?

01 December 2021, 02:30 PM

Oluwole Ojewale

Robin Cartwright

Omolara Balogun

The private sector and organized crime

01 December 2021, 04:00 PM

Yuliya Zabyelina

Daan van Uhm

Marco Dugato

Caterina Paternoster

Thi Hoang

Kimberley L. Thachuk

Above and below the waterline: Combating illegal take and trade of marine and terrestrial species through a new global agreement on wildlife crime

01 December 2021, 10:00 PM

John Scanlon

Daniel Kachelriess

Jorge Caillaux

Lishu Li

Tanya Wyatt

Alice Pasqualato

Cars, gold, and territories: Trends of organized crime in Brazil

01 December 2021, 10:00 PM

Janaina Maldonado

Ana Carolina Haliuc Bragança

Carolina Grillo

Gabriel Feltran

Luiz Guilherme Paiva

Organized environmental crimes

01 December 2021, 11:30 PM

Yuliya Zabyelina

Willis Okumu

Juneseo Hwang

Meredith Gore

Organized crime and animals

02 December 2021, 05:30 AM

Daan van Uhm

Andrea Stefanus

Aitor Ibáñez Alonso

Online intermediaries and illicit trafficking: Addressing the illicit online trade in cultural property, wildlife and falsified medical products

02 December 2021, 07:00 AM

Riikka Puttonen

Neil Brodie

Ling Xu

Abimbola Adebakin

Dmitry Orlov

Tech against the illegal wildlife trade

02 December 2021, 08:30 AM

Simone Haysom

Theo Clement

Wahyu Nurbandi

Debayan Deb

Louise Taylor

Tanya Suri

Toxic trading – How to investigate and prosecute waste trafficking: An interactive demonstration

02 December 2021, 08:30 AM

John Dourlay

Matthew Baird

Flavia Romiti

Illicit Economies in Asia: Changes, effects and futures

02 December 2021, 10:00 AM

Karen Laidler

Cassandra Cross

Amanda Whitfort

Emiline Smith

Katie Lowe

Li-Fung Cho

The illicit mining and trade of extractives in Africa

02 December 2021, 10:00 AM

Oluwole Ojewale

Mohamed Daghar

Abdelkader Abderrahmane

Kiran Pereira

Green-collar crimes and the illegal wildlife trade in Europe

02 December 2021, 11:30 AM

George Iordachescu

Rosaleen Duffy

Teresa Lappe-Osthege

Organized crime in Africa

02 December 2021, 11:30 AM

Mohamed Daghar

Stephen Musau

Abdelkader Abderrahmane

Derica Lambrechts

King Carl Tornam Duho, ACMA CGMA CA

Erzuah Nvidah

An analytical approach to fauna crimes

13 October 2022, 02:30 PM

Juneseo Hwang

Jay Albanese

Alessia Massari

Mark Gibson

Dwi N. Adhiasto

Paxton Mayer

Experiencing environmental crime: An indigenous perspective

13 October 2022, 02:30 PM

Diana Siller

Ismael Ocen

Tanvi Khanna

Siria Gastelum

Leandro Janamejoy

Behavioural issues in environmental crimes and the need for change

13 October 2022, 04:00 PM

Daan van Uhm

Virginia Comolli

Felix Morrow

Mark Gibson

Ulhas Gondhali

Andrey Anisimov

The intersection between illicit economies and instability in West Africa

13 October 2022, 05:30 PM

Lyes Tagziria

Eleanor Beevor

Kingsley Madueke

Mouhamadou Kane

Freedom Onuoha

Environmental defenders

13 October 2022, 07:00 PM

Delon Omrow

Karla Mendes

Julius Kaka

Peter Stoett

Organized environmental crimes and effective policy measures in Indian subcontinent

14 October 2022, 05:30 AM

Tarini Mehta

Hasantha Kaushalya

Arvind Kumar Chaurasia

Ulhas Gondhali

Abhiroop Chowdhury

Security and conservation: The politics of the illegal wildlife trade

14 October 2022, 11:30 AM

Rosaleen Duffy

Tanya Wyatt

Erica Von Essen

Angus Nurse

Convergence - The organised and serious nature of wildlife crimes & how to combat them

14 October 2022, 01:00 PM

John Scanlon

Daniel Kachelriess

Olivia Swaak-Goldman

Annette Hübschle

Juliana Ferreira

Amazon underworld: crime and corruption in the shadows of the world’s largest rainforest

18 October 2023, 11:30 PM

Livia Wagner

Ana Paula Oliveira

Bram Ebus

Ana Carolina Alfinito

Cyber Ecoviolence: Illegal Wildlife Trade on the Internet

18 October 2023, 11:30 PM

Delon Omrow

Peter Stoett

Phillip Cassey

Michelle Anagnostou

John Scanlon

Environmental Crimes and its Impact to the Indigenous populations – Cases of Fiji, PNG and Vanuatu

19 October 2023, 02:30 AM

Tevita Naikasowalu

Eugene Mondu

Marik Waoute Patrick

Natasha Khan

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