MMFU

Media matters: Exposing Environmental Crime

Media matters

...a-driven and investigative pieces for which we have provided reporting grants, mentoring or training, often with our partners the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Many of these articles are part of our ‘digital dangers’ project on online environmental crime. Digital Dangers is a project of the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime, in partnership with Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Jou...

Posted on 28 Jul 2022

MMFU

Taking the green crime fight online

...TOC’s investigation into illicit online trade in endangered species grew from the recognition that innovative responses were needed to combat this type of crime. This work began in 2018 with the ‘digital dangers’ project, funded by the Norwegian government, which laid down the evidence base and technology pilot that underpins our current strategy and work. The MMFU’s work encompasses various activitie...

Posted on 19 Aug 2021

Author(s): Simone Haysom

SEE-Obs

South Eastern Europe Risk Bulletin #7

Observatory of illicit economies in South Eastern Europe

...n that the so-called ‘protection economy’ that enables drug trafficking is being disrupted. This article looks at a recent spate of big seizures and considers what could be behind them. Read more digital dangers: warning signs from North Macedonia. As more people go online for communicating, shopping and searching for information, they also become targets for predatory and criminal behaviour. This trend has ...

Posted on 13 May 2021

CovidCrimeWatch

#CovidCrimeWatch – n°3

...rmore, there is a real risk that, with physical markets shut down, much of the trade will move online. Indeed, recent reports suggest this is already the case. Last year, findings from the GI-TOC’s digital dangers initiative suggested that the illegal wildlife trade on online platforms has been increasing in recent years. The growth in cyberspace usage to market illegal wildlife poses numerous challenges, incl...

Posted on 08 Apr 2020

Author(s): Lyes Tagziria

MMFU

In search of cyber-enabled disruption

In search of cyber-enabled disruption

... This synthesis brings together select findings from across ‘digital dangers’, a year-long project run by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. The primary objective of the Digital Dangers project has been to acquire a better understanding of the unsu...

Posted on 18 Feb 2019

Author(s): Simone Haysom

MMFU

Responding to the illicit wildlife trade online: what do we know?

Digitally Enhanced Responses

...hat they mean for the next generation of efforts to address this issue. Lastly, it describes the most pressing issues on the online IWT agenda, and explains how the Global Initiative’s new project, digital dangers: Disrupting Online IWT, aims to contribute to tackling the problem. Figure 1: Digital dangers through the decades: A timeline of the online wildlife trade: ...

Posted on 07 Jun 2018

Author(s): Simone Haysom