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ACHIEVEMENT #12
LAUNCHED THE 1ST
GUIDANCE FOR ASSESSING
FINANCIAL RISK RELATED TO
WILDLIFE CRIME
Wildlife crime is maintained by sophisticated criminal networks that are motivated by high
financial profits. Traffickers launder billions of dollars every year through complex financial
systems, disguising illegal proceeds as legitimate income. Without targeting these
financial flows, the masterminds behind wildlife crime remain untouched, even when
frontline offenders are arrested.
ICCWC supported the development of the World Bank’s Environmental and Natural
Resource Crimes Risk Assessment Guidance Manual, a novel module added to the World
Bank’s National Risk Assessment Tool (NRA), a tool adopted by over 100 countries and that
guides them in conducting national money laundering and terrorism financing risk
assessments.
THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL RESOURCE
CRIMES RISK ASSESSMENT MODULE
The Environmental and Natural Resource Crimes Risk
Assessment Guidance Manual ensures that wildlife crime
is accounted for in national money laundering and
terrorism financing risk assessments. It also ensures that
these crimes are considered serious sources of illicit
financial flows within anti-money laundering (AML) and
counter terrorism financing (CFT) strategies. The module
has been instrumental in mainstreaming environmental
crimes into national financial crime risk assessments.
