Key Points
The third edition of the UN World Wildlife Crime Report 2024, released Monday, noted that the intercepted illegal wildlife trade as a proportion of all wildlife trade saw an increase from 2017 onwards...
According to the findings, the proportion of wildlife crimes peaked in 2020 and 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic..
Wildlife crime inflicts untold harm upon nature and it also jeopardises livelihoods, public health, good governance and our planets ability to fight climate change, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) executive director, Ghada Waly was quoted in the report as saying...
The global scope and scale of wildlife crime remain substantial with seizures during 20152021, indicating an illegal trade in 162 countries and territories affecting around 4,000 plant and animal species, the UN report highlighted...
The report pointed out that, apart from the immediate threat to the conservation of species, the population reduction caused by wildlife trafficking could play a role in triggering ecosystem-level impacts by disturbing species interdependencies and compromising climate change resilience and mitigation efforts...
