Environmental Crime
Our cutting-edge global research on environmental crime focuses on environmental security, wildlife crime, illegal fishing, corruption and illicit finance.
Our research seeks to promote a step-change in current efforts to address organised criminal activity that is systematically depleting irreplaceable flora and fauna, driving key species to extinction and irreversibly damaging vital ecosystems worldwide. We seek to chart the shifting dynamics of environmental crime, while identifying opportunities to bolster a global response that all too often fails to treat this activity as large-scale transnational organised crime. Our focus is on enhancing the response to critical enabling activities of environmental crime, such as corruption and money laundering, whilst highlighting areas of convergence across multiple crime types.
Our experts
Cathy Haenlein
Director, Organised Crime and Policing
Organised Crime and Policing
Tom Keatinge
Director, CFCS
Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies
Anne-Marie Weeden
Senior Research Fellow
Organised Crime and Policing
Lauren Young
Research Fellow
Organised Crime and Policing
Genevieve Kotarska
Research Fellow
Organised Crime and Policing
Mark Williams
Programme Manager
Organised Crime and Policing
Elijah Glantz
Research Analyst and Project Officer
Organised Crime and Policing
Fellows
Professor Lorraine Elliott
Senior Associate Fellow - Expert in environmental crime, climate and environmental security
Alexandria Reid
Associate Fellow; Senior Global Policy Adviser at Global Witness
Dr Timothy Wittig
Associate Fellow - Expert on wildlife trafficking, illicit economies, and terrorist/threat finance
