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The world is experiencing an anthropogenic nature crisis, with global warming and catastrophes, for example, wildfires and flooding, causing destruction of living conditions and habitat both for human and nonhuman species. According to WWF’s last living planet index, one million species are risking extinction, leading to a need for a criminology that addresses the multifarious reasons for this situation, which to large degree is lacking.

Despite an international treaty to prevent illegal trade in wild animals, the industry is worth billions. The treaty needs an overhaul.

Wolves, Lynx and Brown Bears in Spain: Exceptions to the rule for conservation?

Germany is a major hub for illegally traded species and their products, such as ivory. It is also a major destination country for protected woods and endangered reptiles. The German city of Hamm hosts one of the world’s largest trade shows for reptiles and amphibians, the Terraristika.

Presenting research findings at the 77th American Society of Criminology conference. 

Presenting research findings at the 22nd European Society of Criminology (Eurocrim) conference. 

Although the extent of the black figure of environmental crime in Spain is unknown, according to statistics and reports submitted to the CITES Convention institutions, a significant degree of compliance with this convention has been achieved in Spain.

... Systematic euthanization is a “paradoxical way of enforcing the convention,” says Ragnhild Sollund, a criminologist who has spent over a decade tracking this practice in Norway.

The most recent newsletter of the American Society of Criminology's Critical Criminology Division (DCCSJ) highlights the 2021 DCCSJ award winners. This include Professor Ragnhild Sollund.

In the Anthropocene, humans are changing and harming the planet in significant and possibly irreversible ways. Biodiversity loss is one of the main elements of these human-caused harms.

On September 7th the research team presented their initial findings from the research project "Criminal Justice, Wildlife Conservation and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene."

This is an update on the progress made on the research project by February 2021.

The COVID pandemic has impacted on the project’s plans and progress, but has also made this research project even more relevant. 

Ragnhild Sollund presents her research and the project in the newest edition of The Critical Criminologist Spotlight

Animals of endangered species are seized and destroyed by the authorities rather than protected. 

In this article Ragnhild Sollund, co-editor of Fighting Environmental Crime in Europe and Beyond, discusses green criminology and research into wildlife trade and where it should end.