Seized wood equivalent to 2,000 truckloads of timber, with some 120 individuals under investigation LYON, France – INTERPOL’s first international operation targeting large-scale illegal logging and forest crimes has resulted in almost 200 arrests as well as in the seizure of millions of dollars’ worth of timber and some 150 vehicles across Latin America. Operation […]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – DNA samples from 359 elephant tusks seized in Sri Lanka as part of an illegal consignment, have been taken by a specialist INTERPOL team to assist national authorities determine their origin and potentially identify the criminal networks behind large-scale elephant poaching. The INTERPOL Investigative Support Team (IST), composed of experts from […]

“Poachers are using toxic pesticides to kill India’s endangered tigers, conservationists have warned. They have called for a ban on the chemical Carbofuran, which is used as a cheap pesticide by local potato farmers. Tribal poachers are laying traps for tigers by leaving recently killed animal carcasses filled with the chemical on their territories. The […]

“On the afternoon of May 31, 2011, Charlie Everitt, an investigator for the National Wildlife Crime Unit in Edinburgh, Scotland, received an urgent call from a colleague in the Northern Constabulary, the regional police department whose jurisdiction includes the islands off the country’s western coast. The officer told Everitt that a nature-reserve warden on the […]

CAPE TOWN, South Africa The strategic use of INTERPOL’s global tools and services was the focus of the 2nd Regional Consultation on Fisheries Crime, targeting Southern and Eastern Africa. Organized under the auspices of INTERPOL’s Project Scale and in close collaboration with the South African Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), representatives from 11 […]