On November 11–12, ECO-SOLVE held its first community dialogue in Jambi, on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island. The event brought together a diverse group of stakeholders, including law enforcement officials, government representatives, non-governmental organisations, and community members, particularly indigenous and forest communities affected by wildlife trafficking, land grabbing, illegal logging, and illegal mining. The dialogue served as…
On 3 October 2024, ECO-SOLVE, an EU-funded initiative under the Global Illicit Flows Programme (GIFP), marked a major milestone with the launch of the Global Monitoring System (GMS) during the event New Frontiers in the Fight Against Environmental and Wildlife Crimes. Implemented by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC), the GMS represents a…
The second iteration of the Global Trend Report, published on 25 September 2024 under the ECO-SOLVE project, offers valuable insights into the shifting dynamics of illegal wildlife trade (IWT). Funded by the European Union through the Global Illicit Flows Programme (GIFP), the report draws on data from Brazil and South Africa’s GMS Data Hubs to…
On 18 July 2024, ECO-SOLVE hosted a strategic expert dialogue to address the increasingly urgent and pressing issues resulting from environmental crimes. The event gathered a diverse group of experts to discuss how to strengthen multilateral responses to environmental crime, focusing on the intersection of organised crime, environmental degradation, as well as security, development, and…
From 6-10 May 2024, the ECO-SOLVE team undertook a scoping mission across Brazil, including visits to São Paulo, Brasília and Belém. It focused on identifying and establishing connections with local organisations, government departments, and community groups to understand the intricate dynamics of illicit activities threatening the Amazon Basin rainforest. The initial meetings in São Paulo…
On 20 March 2024, the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) launched ECO-SOLVE, a global EU-funded programme aimed at disrupting illicit environmental flows, at an event in Brussels. This three-year project, part of the Global Illicit Flows Programme (GIFP), aims to effectively monitor the online trade, extract useful and digestible data that can inform…
On February 29, 2024, the second regional consultation on ‘Exposing Elite Protection and Corruption in Environmental Crime in Southeast Asia and Oceania’ was hosted in Bangkok, Thailand, as part of the ECO-SOLVE project. The consultation was introduced by Louise Taylor, Asia-Pacific Representative of the GI-TOC and officially opened by Andreas Roettger on behalf of the…
On 23 November 2023, the first expert regional consultation on ‘exposing elite protection and corruption in environmental crime’ was organized as part of the global GIFP action ECO-SOLVE. The event was held in person at the Radisson Blu Upperhill in Nairobi, Kenya with additional participants from the EU and the GI-TOC ECO-SOLVE project team joining…
The GIFP action ECO-SOLVE was unveiled as one of the EU’s new external action initiatives for tackling wildlife crime at the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime (GI-TOC)’s “Data and Wildlife Crime” side event on the margins of CITES 77th Standing Committee in Geneva, Switzerland, on 9 November 2023. In 2022, the European Commission tasked…
