Podcast – The shifting landscape of wildlife trafficking in West and Central Africa
Six years after EIA’s 2020 report Out of Africa detailed how endemic corruption, weak or absent rule of law, low levels of development and hotspots of armed conflict had left West and Central Africa wide open to exploitation by well-organised transnational criminal gangs, our new report Beyond Africa takes a close look at the shifting dynamics of illegal wildlife trade in the region.
Podcast – What on Earth?
The shifting landscape of wildlife trafficking in West and Central Africa
Welcome back to the EIA What on Earth? podcast.
In this episode, Senior Press and Communications Officer Paul Newman is joined by EIA Securing Criminal Justice Programme Lead Justin Gosling and intelligence analyst Valentina to discuss the findings of the new report and what action they want to see taken.
Justin Gosling
Valentina
Paul Newman
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