This document reviews progress and challenges for the implementation of the existing Law Enforcement and Anti-Poaching Strategy (LEAP) of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). It also summarises and analyses emerging wildlife crime trends and challenges faced by the region in combatting wildlife crime.
The current trend in wildlife crime in the SADC region as well as globally, is that of increasingly sophisticated criminal networks, using increasingly sophisticated methods to source and transport a diversity of products across multiple borders to reach destination markets. As the illicit trade in wildlife evolves to counter continuous strategic and tactical developments in law enforcement and anti-poaching, criminal networks have developed complex financial mechanisms to fund their activities and evade detection.
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