INTERPOL Project Wisdom
Definition
INTERPOL's dedicated operational programme targeting environmental and wildlife crime, coordinating intelligence and joint operations across its 190-plus member countries.
- Focus
- Environmental and wildlife crime
- Member countries
- 190+
- Type
- Operational intelligence and enforcement programme
- Parent body
- INTERPOL Wildlife Crime Unit
Common questions
What kind of activity does it target?+
Cross-border wildlife trafficking networks, alongside related timber and fisheries crime, through coordinated intelligence sharing and joint enforcement operations across member countries.
How does it relate to the Wildlife Crime Unit?+
Project Wisdom is one operational workstream run under INTERPOL's Wildlife Crime Unit rather than a separate standalone body.
Related terms
- Species Identification
- The determination that a seized specimen or product came from a particular species, genus, or family, using morphology, DNA barcoding, protein analysis,...
- TRACE Wildlife Forensics Network
- A UK-based NGO providing forensic identification services, training, and research for wildlife crime cases across Europe and beyond, founded in 2002.
- US NFWFL
- The National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory in Ashland, Oregon, established in 1989 by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. The world's...
- WCCB
- Wildlife Crime Control Bureau. Statutory multi-disciplinary body under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), created by the 2006 amendment...
- Wildlife Forensics
- The application of forensic science methods to the investigation of crimes involving animals, plants, and their derivatives, including species identification, geographic origin,...