Ending Illegal Wildlife Trade – A Practical Guide for Law Enforcement
Investigate and Prevent Illegal Wildlife Trade
Transnational illegal wildlife trafficking fosters corruption, threatens biodiversity, and generates up to US$23 billion in criminal proceeds annually. Developed in partnership with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Wildlife Justice Commission (WJC), this free certificate provides essential wildlife crime law enforcement training.
Global transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) see the trafficking of flora and fauna as a highly profitable and lucrative income source that carries low punishment. In this course, crime investigators and law enforcement officials will learn how to use financial intelligence to investigate and prevent illegal wildlife trade (IWT).
You’ll learn how to analyze suspicious activity report (SAR) data, initiate IWT investigations, analyze the links between wildlife trafficking and money laundering/fraud schemes, and solicit international cooperation to uncover the role of illicit financial flows from IWT. This course can be taken in sequence with our part one certificate, or as a standalone course.
Ending Illegal Wildlife Trade Course Content
This course enables law enforcement professionals to take a practical approach to the prevention of wildlife crime. The online training will equip you with the tools necessary to counter wildlife trafficking, with a focus on wildlife trafficking and money laundering techniques, intelligence-led investigations, and case management.
You’ll learn to
- Navigate the practical challenges involved in investigating wildlife crime
- Describe the intelligence cycle and the key sources that support an investigation
- Recognise law enforcement considerations at the outset of a case
- Apply a range of investigative techniques and methodologies in daily practice
- Provide an effective response to a law enforcement follow-up on an STR/SAR
Key course topics
- The complexities involved in investigating wildlife crime
- The intelligence cycle and the range of intelligence sources
- Key law enforcement considerations at the outset of a case
- Investigative techniques and methodologies for day-to-day application
- Effective responses to law enforcement follow-up requests on STRs/SARs
Intended audience
- Law enforcement
- Crime investigators
- Police intelligence
- Public sector officials
- FIUs in private sector banks
- Those who completed part one of our IWT course
Depending on your existing knowledge, this course may require you to take additional study in illegal wildlife typologies, know your customer (KYC), customer due diligence (CDD), enhanced due diligence (EDD), anti-money laundering investigations, and transactional monitoring.
Course structure
- Wildlife crime course online, accessible from desktop or mobile (and most other devices)
- Self-paced
- Approximately one hour of coursework
- Five-question assessment
- Digital certificate and one ACAMS credit awarded on competition
ACAMS Social Impact Certificates
ACAMS social impact certificates help professionals learn how to investigate and stop wildlife trafficking, modern slavery, and human trafficking. Our two prevention of wildlife trafficking courses, and both our anti-modern slavery and human trafficking courses, are offered free of charge to our global community as part of our mission. You can find links to the other certificates in this series below:
Pricing
- Access your self-paced online course
- 400 hours of training webinars live and on demand
- Practitioner toolkits and best practice guides
- Perspectives from 115,000+ global members
- Discounts on all ACAMS products