This project aimed to addressed the lack of capacity to use financial-intelligence and investigations in countering the illegal wildlife trade. 

The project built capacity to detect and prosecute wildlife-linked money-laundering and financial crimes - which stall development and entrenches poverty - by delivering legally-tailored multi-agency training workshops to the public sector (mainly law enforcement officers and prosecutors) and private sector (mainly financial institutions). Public sector agencies trained included Financial Intelligence Units, anti-corruption agencies, wildlife management authorities, police, economic police, prosecutors, judiciary and central banks.

The project also created legally-tailored financial intelligence handbooks for use by law enforcement authorities and an e-learning resource: https://shoc.rusi.org/IWT.