How to Expose Hidden Timber Crime with Trade Data

Join us for an engaging discussion exploring how to expose hidden timber crime using trade data. The session will introduce recent upgrades to the TimberStats Discrepancy Analysis platform — an interactive, web-based data platform developed to combat illegal timber trade by identifying significant inconsistencies in global trade records.

The platform was developed by TRAFFIC in collaboration with M.A.P. Scientific Services and funded by Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI) to detect illegal timber trafficking, fraud and money laundering.

Fred Ellis, Wildlife Trade Analyst and Financial Specialist at TRAFFIC, will demonstrate the upgraded platform, Trade Discrepancy Analysis methods and show how they are used in practice. This will include case examples of how the tool helps customs officials, law enforcement, and the financial sector identify companies at risk of timber smuggling, document fraud, tax evasion, or trade-based money laundering.

The speakers from the panel are:

• Fred Ellis, Wildlife Trade Analyst & Financial Specialist at TRAFFIC
• James Stevens, Programme Manager at TRAFFIC

The meeting will be held on Zoom. It is open to current members of the Countering Environmental Corruption Practitioners Forum and its Open Data Working Group, as well as those potentially interested in joining.

Date and time: 14 October, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EST

Register here.