1. Wildlife Crime Working Group
2nd WEN Meeting
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
September 29, 2016

2. Who is Sheldon (and why is he asking this)?
Chair, INTERPOL WCWG
Co-Chair, NAWEG
Secretary Treasurer, Canadian Natural Resources Law Enforcement Chiefs (NEST)
New Arctic WEN?
(Former criminal intelligence analyst and officer.)

3. Compare:

4. More than protecting endangered species
Food security
Fuel security
Loss of sustainable economic opportunities
Increased trade barriers for law abiding persons
Loss of tax revenue
Money laundering
Corruption and governance
Political instability
Environmental degradation
Who is the victim of this crime? ... Everyone!

5. If Criminals CollaborateTransnationally,
Why Not Law Enforcement Networks?
INTERPOL Working Groups
Global, Intercontinental
Regional, Issue Specific
(Wildlife) Enforcement Networks
National Environmental Security Task Force (or equivalent)
Internal
We need to share, which means we need to work together at all levels simultaneously!

6. Who are we? 190 Member Countries
Enforcement of international laws concerning wild flora and fauna (trees, animals, meat, small plants)
Longtime links to academia and non-governmental organizations
Experts and leaders from different law enforcement organizations in member countries (a lot of you!).
We are meeting October 2 – 4 on the margins of the CITES CoP.
Singapore Meeting, November 2015

7. What do we do?
The field of wildlife law enforcement is changing. Last year, we discussed that the Working Group needed to take a step back and reorganize what it did and how it did it. INTERPOL’s Environmental Security Sub Directorate, or ENS for short, has grown significantly in the last five years. We needed to review how the Working group contributes to INTERPOL.
Over the last year, we developed a new set of roles for the Working Group that I would like to share with you. This was based on input received at the Nairobi meeting along with consultation inside INTERPOL and other ICCWC partners. There are four roles that the working group is undertaking:

11. Examples since 2014… Shatoosh (Project Ring)
Linking with INTERPOL core projects (Project Log)
Supporting Country Efforts (Chile Crime Scene Manual)
Annual collection of data to feed strategic intelligence development.
Feedback, recommender and subject matter experts to all the ICCWC partners (INTERPOL, CITES, UNODC, WCO, WB)
And others that are not ready to be announced yet