Ep: 9 Law Enforcement and the Illegal Wildlife Trade with Kevin Lacks-Kelly

This week, we launch Episode 9 of the Environmental Crimes Financial Toolkit Podcast with WWF: Law Enforcement and the Illegal Wildlife Trade Our guest is Kevin Lacks-Kelly, Head of the UK National Wildlife Crime Unit, with over 23 years of experience investigating wildlife trafficking. We discuss how wildlife crime operates as a financial crime, what financial intelligence from banks actually reveals in investigations, the red flags that financial institutions are missing, and how to coordinate financial intelligence sharing across borders when trafficking networks operate in multiple jurisdictions.