Why are so few environmental criminals on Interpol’s ‘most wanted’ list?

By Diogo Veríssimo, Research Fellow in Conservation Marketing, University of Oxford
Sally Sinclair, PhD candidate at Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent

Environmental crime is big business, often listed among the world’s top five criminal activities, just behind counterfeiting and drug crime. So it would be reasonable to think it is a big priority for global law enforcement.

But our new research suggests this is not the case. For each country using a global list to track down wanted…

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