Training

Training ensures your staff have the necessary tools to identify traffickers and the trafficking of illegal wildlife trade items, fauna and flora, while understanding how to preserve a crime scene and how to manage the organisational response to ensure that staff are kept safe, operations are not disrupted, and law enforcement have all of the required information they need.

Several training options are available, both as standalone training, and as part of the ECO IWT Certification. Training options include basic introductions to environment and wildlife crime, all the way through to advanced leadership training that includes the organisational risks of wildlife crime, nature based financing risks, the financial flows and implications of money laundering and the potential impacts on an organisation.

United for Wildlife and Impact for Wildlife members get an automatic 50% discount on all training courses.

Provide the tools your staff need to be effective in preventing traffickers from using your organisation and protect staff from zoonotic disease risks and the organisation from the risks associated with the illegal wildlife trade.

Training options are available below.

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Certification training

Mandatory certification training includes:

• General IWT Awareness that must be completed by staff involved in your IWT program once a year. This training provides an overview of environmental crime and the basics needed to identify and detect IWT and traffickers,

• IWT Assessor training for internal assessors and the IWT Focal to ensure that you have oversight of all elements of the IWT management system and can adequately prepare for your external IWT assessment every two years

• IWT Training for managers to give your management the ability to manage your operations and staff to ensure minimal disruption while keeping your staff safe

• Leadership training that must be undertaken once every two years by the leadership team responsible for the illegal wildlife trade to provide high level risk analysis and mitigations, an understanding of the reporting implications for nature-based impacts and reporting requirements, financial and capital risks and opportunities and the impact of money laundering and staff collusion on the organisation.