Environmental crime is a strange beast. It’s extremely broad – it spans everything from illegal wildlife trading to unregulated fishing to dumping hazardous waste. It’s very lucrative – Europol estimates the annual value of transnational environmental crime to be in the hundreds of billions of dollars. It’s mostly invisible – catching culprits in the act is challenging for authorities. And on top of all that, enforcement of sanctions is difficult when accurate quantification of damage is nearly impossible  – many types of environmental disasters play out over a span of months or even years. It’s a problem so big, that…

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