The Decline of the Morula and the Shadow of Poaching - The State of the Global Environmental Crime Market (2007-2024)
Environmental crime continues to expand in a wide variety of areas, including illegal wildlife trade, deforestation, and illegal dumping of waste. Illegal wildlife trade is estimated to be the fourth largest crime in the world at over 2 trillion yen per year. In Japan, 1,161 cases of smuggling were uncovered between 2007 and 2018, with sea cucumbers and whitebait eels poaching becoming increasingly serious and linked to organized crime.
Environmental crime is also closely linked to drug trafficking, and criminal gangs that finance illegal logging have been responsible for violence in Brazil's Amazon region. The European Union has introduced regulations that impose fines of at least 5% of total turnover or 40 million euros on corporations that commit environmental crimes. Furthermore, moves are underway to legislate "ecocide" as an international crime.
Environmental crimes are closely related not only to the destruction of ecosystems but also to organized crime and money laundering, making international cooperation and the strengthening of legal frameworks an urgent necessity.
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