Combating
Environmental Crimes

Grace Farms Foundation works with partners across the globe to disrupt environmental crimes ranging from wildlife trafficking, to ivory poaching, to illegal logging. To accomplish this mission, we leverage the expertise of law enforcement, academia, and governments to facilitate capacity building, training, and awareness efforts to:

- Develop strategic partnerships among key cross-sector stakeholders.
- Increase collaboration between law enforcement agencies and national governments.
- Improve methods and provide transparency around best practices in combating environmental crime.
- Enhance intelligence sharing and interagency cooperation.

Programs & Highlights

Advanced Training - Reducing Maritime Trafficking of Wildlife

May 30 – June 4, 2022 | Advanced Training - Reducing Maritime Trafficking of Wildlife between Africa and Asia| (copy) Advanced training in Arusha, Tanzania. A collaborative USAID/UNDP/Grace Farms Foundation/GEF/Department of Homeland Security, (HSI)/Lusaka Agreement Task Force/University of Washington Project “Reducing Maritime Trafficking of Wildlife between Africa and Asia”.

Reducing Maritime Trafficking of Wildlife between Africa and Asia

A collaborative USAID/UNDP/ Grace Farms Foundation /GEF/U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)/Lusaka Agreement Task Force/ University of Washington Project “Reducing Maritime Trafficking of Wildlife between Africa and Asia”.

Meeting of the 13th LATF Governing Council in Livingstone, Zambia

Public-private partnerships advance whole of government and whole of society approaches to combatting environmental crimes

Pridelands

“Pridelands” documentary on wildlife trafficking launched during the 14th United Nations Crime Congress in Kyoto, Japan, on March of 2021. The documentary features Nature Initiative Director Mark Fowler and Chief Accountability Officer & Justice Initiative Director Rod Khattabi.

Counter Transnational Organized Crime | Brazil

In May of 2021, the U.S. State Department and Freeland offered a capacity building workshop in Brazil on Countering Transnational Organized Crime with Grace Farms Foundation (Rod Khattabi), Freeland (Sean O’Regan), USFWS (Bryan Landry) and MK Wildlife Consultancy (Charles Mackay).

14th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention & Criminal Justice

In March 2021, Rod Khattabi participated in a panel highlighting the importance of information sharing and financial investigations in fighting poaching and illegal wildlife trade, using cross-border investigations, data, genetics, DNA investigation and land tenure methods.