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implemented through technical assistance from the Basel Institute on Governance’s [Green Corruption programme](http:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fgreen-corruption).\n\n[**Download the report here**](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fsites\u002Fdefault\u002Ffiles\u002F2026-04\u002F260401_Preventing-corruption-in-the-timber-value-chain_Latam.pdf)\n\n### Key corruption risks\n\nThe report describes the main corruption risks identified in collaboration with five environmental authorities responsible for integrity in the timber value chain, covering:\n\n- The granting of forestry rights\n- The issuance and use of timber transport waybills\n- The control and supervision of authorised actors.\n\nThe main corruption risks identified involve:\n\n- Improper agreements between public servants and third parties\n- Abuse of authority\n- Undue influence or pressure from superiors\n\n### Mitigation measures\n\nPlanned mitigation measures fall into four main categories:\n\n- Regulatory improvements, including updating procedures, closing implementation gaps and improving efficiency\n- Strengthened supervision, such as file tracking systems and alerts to reduce discretion\n- Enhanced communication, including multicultural approaches for Indigenous and rural communities\n- Cross-cutting measures to promote integrity such as awareness-raising, ethical reflection and training\n\nGiven common patterns across natural resource sectors, these measures may be relevant for other environmental agencies, though they should be adapted to local contexts.\n\n### Lessons learned\n\nThe experiences in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru highlight the importance of tailoring risk management approaches to national contexts, ensuring institutional leadership and fostering inter-institutional collaboration. They also underline the value of peer learning and cross-border exchange.",[27],"2026-04-02","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Fa4345633-502b-4784-b391-b3ca6bafb2c5?width=600&height=840","Basel Institute on Governance",[97,100],{"url":98,"caption":99},"\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Fprotecting-forests-through-corruption-prevention-videos-on-promising-initiatives-in-bolivia-ecuador-and-peru-2726","Learn more about protecting forests through corruption prevention",{"url":101,"caption":102},"\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Fjoining-forces-to-protect-the-amazon-forest-and-its-communities-from-corruption-2717","Read related news",[],[105,109,113,117,121],{"authors_id":106},{"id":107,"name":108},586,"Aldo Bautista",{"authors_id":110},{"id":111,"name":112},587,"Mirtha Muniz",{"authors_id":114},{"id":115,"name":116},588,"Karla Coronado",{"authors_id":118},{"id":119,"name":120},589,"Patricia Torres",{"authors_id":122},{"id":123,"name":124},590,"Francisco Bustamante",[126,130,134],{"countries_id":127},{"id":128,"name":129},171,"Peru",{"countries_id":131},{"id":132,"name":133},28,"Bolivia",{"countries_id":135},{"id":136,"name":137},60,"Ecuador",[139,143,147],{"tags_id":140},{"id":141,"name":142},1303,"Environment",{"tags_id":144},{"id":145,"name":146},1373,"Corruption prevention",{"tags_id":148},{"id":149,"name":150},859,"Corruption risks",[152],2494,[21],[15],"2026-06-01T22:10:25.000Z","b0662e2a-864d-4888-a1b7-4342b7570b30","2026-06-02T21:18:25.000Z","Corruption in the timber value chain represents a major challenge for environmental sustainability\nand governance in Latin America. This report introduces the application of a **corruption risk\nmanagement approach** by environmental authorities in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. This\napproach was implemented within the framework of technical assistance provided by the Green\nCorruption programme of the Basel Institute on Governance.\n\nCorruption refers to the misuse of entrusted power for private gain, often leading to increased\ninequality, poverty and social division. The concept of “green corruption” addresses the impact of\ncorruption as a major driver of environmental devastation and increased risk of harm to the\nenvironment and natural resources. Corruption risk refers to the possibility of a corrupt act\noccurring, but does not necessarily mean that a corrupt act has taken place. Mitigation measures\n– based on identified corruption risks, their impacts and likelihoods – are typically a prioritised set\nof recommended actions to address weaknesses, allocate resources, seek external support or\noffset the impact of negative conditions.\n\nUtilising the Green Corruption programme’s corruption risk management approach,\nrepresentatives of the environmental authorities identified corruption risks within the timber value\nchain related to **three key risk contexts**:\n1. The granting of forestry rights\n2. The issuance and use of timber transport waybills\n3. The control and supervision of authorised actors.\n\n**Priority areas of concern** included documentary procedures, physical inspections and the\nadministrative sanctioning procedure.\n\n**Specific corruption risks** identified involved:\n- the potential for improper agreements between public servants and third parties;\n- abuse of authority; and\n- undue influence or other improper pressures from hierarchical superiors within organisations.\n\nThe majority of planned **mitigation measures** can be grouped into four categories:\n- **Regulatory improvement**, to be accomplished by reviewing and updating administrative procedures, closing implementation gaps and other opportunities for corruption and improving operating efficiency.\n- **Strengthened supervision** through the implementation of file tracking systems and alerts as well as the use of verification formats in the approval of forestry rights and the issuance of timber transport waybills, and other practices that reduce the discretion of operational units.\n- **Enhanced communication strategies** to support information exchange and joint action within the timber value chain. Specifically, a multicultural strategy was developed as a way of reducing the vulnerability to corruption for Indigenous and rural farming communities.\n- **Cross-cutting measures** to promote integrity through awareness-raising, ethical reflection and training for public servants and other actors in the timber value chain.\n\nThis document concludes with lessons learned and recommendations, highlighting the\nimportance of tailoring the approach to recognise the unique context of each country, its\ninstitutional leadership in risk management and the contribution of inter-institutional collaborative\nwork. The risk management experiences in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru also highlight the value of\npeer learning and the exchange of experiences, including across national borders.\n\nIn summary, this publication offers a practical approach for implementing corruption risk\nmanagement as an effective tool to reduce the likelihood of corrupt or unethical behaviour and to\nstrengthen the institutional framework for the timber value chain in Latin 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create vulnerabilities. The publication was produced by U4 and the Basel Institute on Governance through its Green Corruption programme.\n\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fsites\u002Fdefault\u002Ffiles\u002F2026-02\u002FAddressing-conflicts-of-interest-and-corruption-in-indonesia-s-energy-transition_U4-Issue.pdf\">Download publication here\u003C\u002Fa>.\n\n### About the paper\n\nConflicts of interest and corruption in Indonesia's political economy pose significant risks to its energy transition, including the Just Energy Transition Partnership. Existing legal and institutional frameworks are fragmented, inconsistently applied, and often fail to address the risk of state capture by powerful political and economic actors, especially in the extractive and energy sectors.\n\nThe reliance on fossil fuel industries for political financing and the monopolistic nature of state-owned entities further complicate the shift to a low- or no-carbon system, despite the country's ambitious renewable energy targets.\n\nPotential pathways to greater anti-corruption resilience lie in improvements to beneficial ownership transparency and strengthening regulation, monitoring and sanctioning of conflict of interest violations.\n",[21],[27],"2026-02-24","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Fd97f2ca5-300d-45c9-9de9-33152b72f96c?width=600&height=840","U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre",[],[173,176],{"url":174,"caption":175},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.u4.no\u002Fpublications\u002Faddressing-conflicts-of-interest-and-corruption-in-indonesia-s-energy-transition"," View on U4 website",{"url":177,"caption":178},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.u4.no\u002Fblog\u002Fimproving-anti-corruption-resilience-in-indonesia-s-energy-transition"," Read related U4 blog",[180,184,188,192],{"authors_id":181},{"id":182,"name":183},581,"Robert Forster",{"authors_id":185},{"id":186,"name":187},582,"Aled Williams",{"authors_id":189},{"id":190,"name":191},523,"Lakso 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susceptible to manipulation.\n- Progress in renewable energy uptake is slowed by the enduring influence and interests of fossil fuel incumbents who benefit from subsidies that keep coal an artificially cheap and viable energy source.\n- The Just Energy Transition Partnership is vulnerable to misallocations due to concentrated decision-making power, limited transparency in project selection and insufficient involvement of national anti-corruption bodies and civil society in its planning.\n- Improving transparency of beneficial ownership and strengthening the monitoring and sanctioning of conflict of interest violations are possible pathways to build greater anti-corruption resilience, though these institutional efforts alone are insufficient to fully address state capture 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It also formulates recommendations to mitigate the key risks.\n\nIt is based on a comprehensive analysis of corruption risks in the forestry sector conducted by experts from the National Agency on Corruption Prevention, together with the Specialized Environmental Prosecutor's Office of the Prosecutor General's Office, the Basel Institute on Governance and WWF Ukraine.\n\nThe complete report is available in Ukrainian and the summary in English (forthcoming).\n\n### About this report and acknowledgments\n\nThis publication has been made possible with the support of Switzerland through the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.\n\nThe contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the Basel Institute on Governance, its donors and partners, or the University of Basel",[21],"Ukrainian",[27],"2025-03-03","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F284fe1b2-2678-4885-a391-5587c5ebcda7?width=600&height=840","National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) of Ukraine",[],[248],{"url":249,"caption":250},"route:\u003Cnolink>"," Download the summary (English) - forthcoming",[],[253],{"countries_id":254},{"id":255,"name":256},225,"Ukraine",[258,260,262],{"tags_id":259},{"id":149,"name":150},{"tags_id":261},{"id":212,"name":213},{"tags_id":263},{"id":141,"name":142},[265],2435,[21],[241],"2025-03-03T23:05:15.000Z","2026-05-23T20:08:01.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fcorruption-risks-forestry-sector-ukraine",{"id":272,"slug":273,"title":274,"status":6,"nid":275,"year":276,"body":277,"external":19,"topic":278,"language":15,"type":279,"date_published":280,"image":281,"citation":14,"publisher":282,"link_internal":283,"link_external":284,"authors":285,"countries":286,"tags":287,"pdf":290,"topics":292,"featured":19,"languages":293,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":47,"date_created":294,"user_updated":48,"date_updated":295,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":296},2244,"basel-gold-day-ii-recycled-gold-awareness-collective-action-recycled-gold-and","Basel Gold Day II: Recycled Gold – From awareness to collective action on recycled gold and artisanal mining",2314,2022,"A short summary of \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.pieth.ch\u002Fgold-day-II\">Basel Gold Day II\u003C\u002Fa>, held at the University of Basel on 27 October 2022. The one-day conference brought together leading voices from across the gold supply chain and civil society. The summary covers:\n\n\n- **Momentum towards responsible gold**, in terms of growing awareness of the gold industry’s human and environmental impacts\n- **Recycled gold is not a golden bullet.** The lack of harmonised definition creates loopholes that can be exploited for greenwashing or to launder problematic gold into recycled supply chains. Sharpening definitions and increasing sourcing from e-waste will help.\n- **Impact of the use of recycled gold on artisanal mining**, and how to promote positive change in the artisanal and small-scale mining sector through Collective Action and dialogue between stakeholders.\n\n\nThe event was co-organised by Sabrina Karib of the Precious Metals Impact Forum and Professor Mark Pieth with the support of the Basel Institute on Governance, and kindly sponsored by Argor-Heraeus and Basler Kantonalbank (BKB). ",[21],[27],"2022-11-18","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Fbdecb371-86f9-4f31-98de-5d2ce5788516?width=600&height=840","Office Pieth; Precious Metals Impact Forum",[],[],[],[],[288],{"tags_id":289},{"id":141,"name":142},[291],2286,[21],[15],"2022-11-18T17:04:03.000Z","2026-06-01T22:47:36.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fbasel-gold-day-ii-recycled-gold-awareness-collective-action-recycled-gold-and",{"id":298,"slug":299,"title":300,"status":6,"nid":301,"year":276,"body":302,"external":19,"topic":303,"language":15,"type":305,"date_published":307,"image":308,"citation":14,"publisher":309,"link_internal":310,"link_external":311,"authors":315,"countries":324,"tags":325,"pdf":334,"topics":336,"featured":19,"languages":338,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":47,"date_created":339,"user_updated":48,"date_updated":340,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":341},2195,"wp-39","Working Paper 39: Behavioural drivers of corruption facilitating illegal wildlife trade – Problem analysis and state of the field review",2210,"This Problem Analysis is a review of the efficacy and opportunities for using social norm and behaviour change (SNBC) approaches to combat illegal wildlife trade (IWT) and other natural resource-related corruption.\n\nBehavioural science is a rich and expansive field that has received prominent coverage in recent years for the promise it offers as a foundational yet underutilised approach to achieving biodiversity conservation. Extensive literature shows how SNBC initiatives can help combat diverse corruption problems, although for those related to natural resource management the evidence for doing so is sparse.\n\nThis report synthesises the available information and suggests the next steps to redress this current lack of evidence. It seeks to:\n\n\n- Understand what SNBC approaches might or might not work in fighting corruption.\n- Identify entry points for designing SNBC interventions that can effectively reduce corruption related to IWT.\n\n\n### About and acknowledgements\n\nThis Analysis has been produced in association with the Targeting Natural Resource Corruption (TNRC) project. The TNRC project is working to improve biodiversity outcomes by helping practitioners to address the threats posed by corruption to wildlife, fisheries and forests. TNRC harnesses existing knowledge, generates new evidence, and supports innovative policy and practice for more effective anti-corruption programming. Learn more at \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Ftnrcproject.org\">tnrcproject.org\u003C\u002Fa>.\n\nThis publication is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents are the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID, the United States Government, or individual TNRC consortium members.\n\nThe publication is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Working Paper Series, ISSN: 2624-9650. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).\n\nSuggested citation: Baez Camargo, Claudia, and Gayle Burgess. 2022. “Behavioural drivers of corruption facilitating illegal wildlife trade: Problem analysis and state of the field review.” Working Paper 39, Basel Institute on Governance. Available at: \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fwp-39\">https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fwp-39\u003C\u002Fa>",[21,304],"Public Governance",[306,27],"Article","2022-06-01","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F9f6e8d24-9468-43cb-949d-bdbd25d35adb?width=600&height=840","Basel Institute on Governance; TRAFFIC",[],[312],{"url":313,"caption":314},"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.zoom.us\u002Fwebinar\u002Fregister\u002FWN_VUh1-aisS-Su1Cuwc8vWlA"," Register for virtual event - 27 June 2022",[316,320],{"authors_id":317},{"id":318,"name":319},295,"Claudia Baez Camargo",{"authors_id":321},{"id":322,"name":323},501,"Gayle Burgess",[],[326,328,330],{"tags_id":327},{"id":212,"name":213},{"tags_id":329},{"id":141,"name":142},{"tags_id":331},{"id":332,"name":333},848,"Behavioural science",[335],2234,[21,337],"Corruption Prevention and Public Governance",[15],"2022-06-09T13:42:35.000Z","2026-05-31T22:52:04.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fwp-39",{"id":343,"slug":344,"title":345,"status":6,"nid":346,"year":276,"body":347,"external":19,"topic":348,"language":15,"type":349,"date_published":350,"image":351,"citation":14,"publisher":352,"link_internal":353,"link_external":354,"authors":358,"countries":375,"tags":376,"pdf":385,"topics":387,"featured":19,"languages":388,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":47,"date_created":389,"user_updated":48,"date_updated":390,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":391},1753,"where-are-weakest-links-illegal-wildlife-trade-enforcement-chain-lessons-corruption","Where are the weakest links in the illegal wildlife trade enforcement chain? Lessons from corruption risk assessments with agencies in three countries",2214,"This Practice Note:\n\n\n- Summarizes experiences and lessons from conducting corruption risk assessments (CRAs) with authorities responsible for investigations and prosecutions of illegal wildlife trade (IWT) cases in three countries in Africa and Latin America. It seeks to demonstrate the value of adopting a collaborative approach to CRAs, illustrates potential avenues for pursuing such an approach when the right factors are in place, and demonstrates how mapping the criminal justice process provides a solid starting point to identify critical vulnerabilities. The note also highlights factors that might recommend another approach, for example where collaboration cannot be assured.\n- Highlights some common risks that emerged from the CRAs in the three countries and that may negatively affect the progress of IWT cases in other countries. Still, corruption risks vary among countries and agency contexts, and it is not always feasible for practitioners to conduct or initiate a CRA. These general insights can help point practitioners to possible vulnerabilities to look out for.\n\n\nThe practice note was developed by team members of the Basel Institute's \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fgreen-corruption\">Green Corruption programme\u003C\u002Fa> as part of a wider research collaboration between the Basel Institute and the TNRC project consortium. \n\n### Takeaways\n\n\n- Effective enforcement against illegal wildlife trade (IWT) and related crimes is a vital component of wildlife conservation, but corruption risks within law enforcement agencies can undermine their ability to investigate and prosecute such cases. Supporting agencies to identify, evaluate, prioritize, and mitigate their corruption risks can help improve enforcement outcomes, assign scarce resources to areas that pose the highest risks, and build trust and cooperation with other agencies and stakeholders.\n- This TNRC Practice Note describes the lessons and insights from a three-country corruption risk assessment (CRA) exercise, using a collaborative approach that involves engaging with agency staff and relevant stakeholders to illuminate and systematically evaluate major risks. This is a sensitive process that requires strong relationships with agency leadership and a deep understanding of local political, social, and economic factors.\n- In all three countries, mitigating high-priority corruption risks in law enforcement agencies required a constructive, pragmatic, and sustained approach. Working jointly and acknowledging agencies’ political, capacity, and resource constraints can therefore represent a viable alternative to simply penalizing corrupt practices through investigations and audits.\n- Experience suggests that mapping the criminal justice process’ decision points is a crucial first step that builds shared understanding across stakeholders and helps identify corruption risk areas. It can take substantial investments of time to produce such maps, but that investment is usually warranted as it ensures researchers and stakeholders are speaking the same language.\n\n\n### About the TNRC project\n\nThe TNRC project seeks to improve biodiversity conservation outcomes by helping practitioners to address the threats posed by corruption to wildlife, fisheries and forests. TNRC harnesses existing knowledge, generates new evidence, and supports innovative policy and practice for more effective anti-corruption programming on the ground.\n\nA USAID-funded project, TNRC is implemented by a consortium of leading organizations in anti-corruption, natural resource management, and conservation: World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre at the Chr. Michelsen Institute, TRAFFIC, and the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) at George Mason University.",[21],[306,27],"2022-04-26","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F5f8a6994-0803-4ade-aac0-7a2ba8a398db?width=600&height=840","Targeting Natural Resource Corruption (TNRC) project",[],[355],{"url":356,"caption":357},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.worldwildlife.org\u002Fpages\u002Ftnrc-where-are-the-weakest-links-in-the-illegal-wildlife-trade-enforcement-chain-lessons-from-corruption-risk-assessments-with-agencies-in-three-countries","View publication online on TNRC website",[359,363,367,371],{"authors_id":360},{"id":361,"name":362},314,"Manuel Medina",{"authors_id":364},{"id":365,"name":366},299,"Juhani Grossmann",{"authors_id":368},{"id":369,"name":370},361,"Taradhinta Suryandari",{"authors_id":372},{"id":373,"name":374},296,"Monica Guy",[],[377,379,381],{"tags_id":378},{"id":149,"name":150},{"tags_id":380},{"id":141,"name":142},{"tags_id":382},{"id":383,"name":384},1374,"Law enforcement",[386],1781,[21],[15],"2022-04-27T11:53:12.000Z","2026-05-31T22:52:10.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fwhere-are-weakest-links-illegal-wildlife-trade-enforcement-chain-lessons-corruption",{"id":393,"slug":394,"title":395,"status":6,"nid":396,"year":276,"body":397,"external":19,"topic":398,"language":15,"type":400,"date_published":401,"image":402,"citation":14,"publisher":352,"link_internal":403,"link_external":404,"authors":407,"countries":414,"tags":415,"pdf":434,"topics":436,"featured":19,"languages":438,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":47,"date_created":439,"user_updated":48,"date_updated":440,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":441},1768,"targeting-profit-non-conviction-based-forfeiture-environmental-crime","Targeting Profit: Non-Conviction Based Forfeiture in Environmental Crime",2157,"Environmental criminals and their corrupt facilitators get rich by destroying our planet and its natural resources. This publication for the Targeting Natural Resource Corruption (TNRC) project explains how and why to confiscate their illicit assets – with or without a criminal conviction.\n\nThe introductory overview of asset recovery tools to tackle environmental crime was a collaboration between the Basel Institute's \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fgreen-corruption\">Green Corruption programme\u003C\u002Fa> and \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fasset-recovery\">International Centre for Asset Recovery\u003C\u002Fa>. It is part of a wider research collaboration between the Basel Institute and the TNRC project consortium. \n\n### Takeaways\n\n\n- Using legal powers to confiscate assets can be an important element of enforcement against environmental crime because it targets **the profit motive for environmental crime and disrupts the financing of further criminal activity**.\n- **Confiscating illicit assets does not require an individual to be convicted**. Many countries have judicial procedures to confiscate assets derived from criminal activity without the need for a specific criminal conviction.\n- This procedure, referred to as non-conviction based forfeiture (NCBF), can be an **effective way to target the profits from environmental crimes**, where corruption and money laundering are frequently significant components.\n- **Understanding and applying anti-corruption and anti-money laundering laws in their country** is vital for enforcement practitioners to be able to pursue criminals’ assets more effectively. Early coordination with anti-corruption and financial intelligence authorities will assist in this.\n- NCBF is no different to the process of criminal investigation and prosecution, in that it depends on the degree to which good governance, strong and accountable institutions, and a well-functioning justice system are present in a country. Prior to engaging NCBF for environmental corruption cases, **risks should be assessed in a similar manner to the risks of existing law enforcement and prosecution practices** in a given country.\n\n\n### About the TNRC project\n\nThe TNRC project seeks to improve biodiversity conservation outcomes by helping practitioners to address the threats posed by corruption to wildlife, fisheries and forests. TNRC harnesses existing knowledge, generates new evidence, and supports innovative policy and practice for more effective anti-corruption programming on the ground.\n\nA USAID-funded project, TNRC is implemented by a consortium of leading organizations in anti-corruption, natural resource management, and conservation: World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre at the Chr. Michelsen Institute, TRAFFIC, and the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) at George Mason University.",[399,21],"Asset Recovery",[306,27],"2022-01-10","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F997aba04-a6b1-47e6-8dd5-6fefa85fb5c4?width=600&height=840",[],[405],{"url":406,"caption":357},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.worldwildlife.org\u002Fpages\u002Ftnrc-introductory-overview-targeting-profit-non-conviction-based-forfeiture-in-environmental-crime",[408,412],{"authors_id":409},{"id":410,"name":411},292,"Jonathan Spicer",{"authors_id":413},{"id":365,"name":366},[],[416,420,424,428,432],{"tags_id":417},{"id":418,"name":419},821,"Unexplained wealth",{"tags_id":421},{"id":422,"name":423},1379,"Non-conviction based forfeiture",{"tags_id":425},{"id":426,"name":427},843,"Asset recovery",{"tags_id":429},{"id":430,"name":431},1215,"Illicit financial flows",{"tags_id":433},{"id":141,"name":142},[435],1790,[437,21],"Asset Recovery and Enforcement",[15],"2022-04-27T11:53:23.000Z","2026-06-01T22:47:37.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Ftargeting-profit-non-conviction-based-forfeiture-environmental-crime",{"id":443,"slug":444,"title":445,"status":6,"nid":446,"year":447,"body":448,"external":19,"topic":449,"language":15,"type":450,"date_published":451,"image":452,"citation":14,"publisher":95,"link_internal":453,"link_external":457,"authors":461,"countries":476,"tags":477,"pdf":488,"topics":495,"featured":19,"languages":496,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":47,"date_created":497,"user_updated":48,"date_updated":498,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":499},1777,"corrupting-environment-insights-corruption-environment-and-illicit-trade","Corrupting the Environment: insights on corruption, the environment and illicit trade",2138,2021,"This collection of insights on corruption, the environment and illicit trade emerges from the monthly \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fgreen-corruption\u002Fcorrupting-environment\">Corrupting the Environment\u003C\u002Fa> webinar series between December 2020 and August 2021. \n\nA joint initiative of the Basel Institute on Governance and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the series brought together leading voices from the public and private sectors, academia and civil society. In lively panel discussions, they explored critical trends and shared recommendations for addressing the corruption that is destroying our planet and people's opportunities for sustainable development. \n\nThe publications below are adapted from summaries published on the Basel Institute following each event.\n\n ",[21],[306,27],"2021-11-29","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F145440e8-0787-4f97-b6c2-53c5437824e3?width=600&height=840",[454],{"url":455,"caption":456},"\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fnatural-resource-management-and-environmental-corruption-indonesia-survey-report"," 7: Natural resource management and environmental corruption in Indonesia - the Green Corruption paradox (survey report)",[458],{"url":459,"caption":460},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fplaylist?list=PLYRnhpCcnLP-Ual-E91AOVFugMqDN6z-P"," YouTube playlist: Corrupting the Environment webinar series",[462,464,468,470,474],{"authors_id":463},{"id":365,"name":366},{"authors_id":465},{"id":466,"name":467},360,"Alexander Berman",{"authors_id":469},{"id":369,"name":370},{"authors_id":471},{"id":472,"name":473},307,"Jonathan Ambrogi",{"authors_id":475},{"id":373,"name":374},[],[478,480,482,484],{"tags_id":479},{"id":212,"name":213},{"tags_id":481},{"id":332,"name":333},{"tags_id":483},{"id":141,"name":142},{"tags_id":485},{"id":486,"name":487},1193,"Financial investigations",[489,490,491,492,493,494],1797,1798,1799,1800,1801,1802,[21],[15],"2022-04-27T11:53:28.000Z","2026-06-02T14:09:07.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fcorrupting-environment-insights-corruption-environment-and-illicit-trade",{"id":501,"slug":502,"title":503,"status":6,"nid":504,"year":447,"body":505,"external":19,"topic":506,"language":15,"type":507,"date_published":509,"image":510,"citation":14,"publisher":511,"link_internal":512,"link_external":516,"authors":517,"countries":526,"tags":529,"pdf":538,"topics":540,"featured":19,"languages":541,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":47,"date_created":542,"user_updated":48,"date_updated":543,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":455},1789,"natural-resource-management-and-environmental-corruption-indonesia-survey-report","Working Paper 37: The Green Corruption paradox: Natural resource management and environmental corruption in Indonesia",2098,"This Working Paper details the findings of a survey of Indonesians’ perceptions of corruption, the economy and the environment in July 2021.\n\nThe survey was a joint initiative of the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fgreen-corruption\">Green Corruption\u003C\u002Fa> team at the Basel Institute on Governance and leading Indonesian pollster Lembaga Survei Indonesia (LSI). It consisted of a national public opinion survey covering 2,580 respondents and in-depth interviews with 30 private-sector representatives working in various natural resource sectors.\n\nThe survey reveals what we call the Green Corruption paradox: Conflicting, and arguably mutually exclusive, views on all three topics can co-exist. Despite seeing the presence of and being deeply concerned about corruption and environmental degradation, people tend to focus on livelihoods when times are hard. \n\nPeople also, according to the survey data, favour economic structures that appear to channel the benefits of natural resource utilisation more directly to citizens. In Indonesia, this means rejecting private companies – particularly foreign-owned – in favour of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and people’s cooperatives.\n\nThe report ends with five key recommendations that can inform Indonesian policy and the interventions of donors and civil society organisations concerned with conservation, anti-corruption and sustainable development.\n\n### About this Working Paper\n\nThis research was made possible with the generous support of the American people through the USAID CEGAH programme.\n\nThe publication is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Working Paper Series, ISSN: 2624-9650.\n\nIt is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-nc-nd\u002F4.0\u002F\">CC BY-NC-ND 4.0\u003C\u002Fa>).\n\nSuggested citation: Grossmann, Juhani, Rizka Halida, and Tara Suryandari. 2021. “The Green Corruption paradox: Natural resource management and environmental corruption in Indonesia.” *Working Paper* 37, Basel Institute on Governance and LSI. Available at: \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fnatural-resource-management-and-environmental-corruption-indonesia-survey-report\">https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fnatural-resource-management-and-environmental-corruption-indonesia-survey-report\u003C\u002Fa>",[21],[27,508],"Working Paper","2021-09-21","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F8a0e92a0-3e50-4b37-aaa4-ad0dbe116f02?width=600&height=840","Basel Institute on Governance; LSI",[513],{"url":514,"caption":515},"\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications?type=Working%20Paper"," See all Working Papers",[],[518,520,524],{"authors_id":519},{"id":365,"name":366},{"authors_id":521},{"id":522,"name":523},364,"Rizka Halida",{"authors_id":525},{"id":369,"name":370},[527],{"countries_id":528},{"id":199,"name":200},[530,532,536],{"tags_id":531},{"id":141,"name":142},{"tags_id":533},{"id":534,"name":535},1380,"Sustainability",{"tags_id":537},{"id":212,"name":213},[539],1825,[21],[15],"2022-04-27T11:53:37.000Z","2026-06-02T14:09:08.000Z",{"id":545,"slug":546,"title":547,"status":6,"nid":548,"year":447,"body":549,"external":19,"topic":550,"language":15,"type":551,"date_published":554,"image":555,"citation":14,"publisher":95,"link_internal":556,"link_external":557,"authors":570,"countries":571,"tags":572,"pdf":577,"topics":582,"featured":19,"languages":583,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":47,"date_created":584,"user_updated":48,"date_updated":585,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":586},1810,"wildlife-crime-series","Wildlife crime learning series – understanding risks, avenues for action",2007,"This series of four publications are the PDF versions of a flexible and practical learning resource developed by the Green Corruption programme at the Basel Institute on Governance. The introductory series covers:\n\n\n- Illegal wildlife trade and financial crime\n- Illegality in the exotic pet trade\n- Forest crime and the illegal timber trade\n- Marine species trafficking\n\n\nThe series is broadly aimed at:\n\n\n- Private-sector companies exposed to risks of illegal wildlife trade and related crimes, including financial institutions, transport companies, traders and wholesale retailers\n- Policy makers\n- Law enforcement\n- Practitioners in both conservation and anti-corruption fields\n\n\nThe aim is to broaden understanding of the threats that wildlife crimes pose to sustainable development and clean business. It provides relevant information, statistics and background knowledge to help enhance policies and processes aimed at curbing wildlife crime and associated risks. The focus is on financial crimes and supply chain vulnerabilities that facilitate the illegal trade in wildlife and thereby increase companies’ legal, financial and reputational risks.\n\nThis learning resource and many more are available as interactive learning tools on the Basel Institute’s LEARN platform.\n\nThe Green Corruption programme at the Basel Institute on Governance applies anti-corruption and governance tools to address environmental crime and degradation. For more information, see \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.baselgovernance.org\u002Fgreen-corruption\">www.baselgovernance.org\u002Fgreen-corruption\u003C\u002Fa>\n\nThis publication was funded by PMI IMPACT, a grant award initiative of Philip Morris International (PMI). In the performance of their research, the authors maintained full independence from PMI. The views and opinions expressed in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of PMI. Neither PMI, nor any of its affiliates, nor any person acting on their behalf may be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained herein.\n\nThe work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).\n\nIt is based on content provided by Patricia Raxter with editing and other input from Alexander Berman, Juhani Grossmann, Monica Guy, Shane McLean, Manuel Medina and David Ward.\n\nCitation: Basel Institute on Governance, 2021. *Wildlife crime – understanding risks, avenues for action. *Basel: Basel Institute on Governance, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fwildlife-crime-series\">https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fwildlife-crime-series\u003C\u002Fa>",[21],[552,553,27],"Case Study","Guidelines","2021-04-23","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Fdb52dbab-517c-45a9-866d-3b4cb8cf33dd?width=600&height=840",[],[558,561,564,567],{"url":559,"caption":560},"https:\u002F\u002Flearn.baselgovernance.org\u002Fcourse\u002Fview.php?id=77","Part 1: Illegal wildlife trade and financial crime (interactive version on LEARN)",{"url":562,"caption":563},"https:\u002F\u002Flearn.baselgovernance.org\u002Fcourse\u002Fview.php?id=80"," Part 2: Illegality in the exotic pet trade (interactive version on LEARN)",{"url":565,"caption":566},"https:\u002F\u002Flearn.baselgovernance.org\u002Fcourse\u002Fview.php?id=83"," Part 3: Forest crime and the illegal timber trade (interactive version on LEARN)",{"url":568,"caption":569},"https:\u002F\u002Flearn.baselgovernance.org\u002Fcourse\u002Fview.php?id=86"," Part 4: Corruption and marine wildlife trafficking (interactive version on LEARN)",[],[],[573],{"tags_id":574},{"id":575,"name":576},867,"Financial crime",[578,579,580,581],1844,1845,1846,1847,[21],[15],"2022-04-27T11:53:51.000Z","2026-05-31T22:51:49.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fwildlife-crime-series",1780676548845]