Deforestation and Conversion-linked Financial Crimes Toolkit

Please read full ITT document for information. KEY OBJECTIVES Interpol estimates illegal logging alone is worth approximately $152 billion a year, accounting for up to 90% of tropical deforestation in some countries. In the Amazon, recent studies have found that 94% of deforestation and habitat destruction in Brazil's Amazon and Cerrado could be illegal, and in Amazon countries like Colombia, Peru and Bolivia illegal enterprises and organised crime are behind one of the main drivers of deforestation: land grabbing....