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Certification
The ECO Illegal Wildlife Trade Certification is an international certification focused on ensuring organisations eliminate the illegal wildlife trade from their supply chains and value chains and prevent criminals from using their infrastructure to traffic wildlife and wildlife products around the world.
Based on the principles enshrined within United for Wildlife's Buckingham Palace Declaration, the certification ensures accountability and responsibility in eradicating the illegal wildlife trade and establishes a structured management system to drive compliance, sustainability, and biodiversity protection.
Reviewed by leading NGOs, law enforcement, and industry experts, the certification provides voluntary standards that organizations can adopt. Independent assessments, every two years, ensure credibility and consistency across industries.
Additionally, the certification enables organizations to disclose industry-specific sustainability and biodiversity-related risks that impact financial viability, compliance, and stakeholder trust.
Management System
The ECO IWT Certification helps organizations proactively manage wildlife-related risks and opportunities by implementing structured management systems. These systems define compliance obligations, stakeholder influences, and industry risks to ensure an effective approach against the illegal wildlife trade.
With the Envosus software platform that is included with the certification, organisations simplify implementation through AI-guided features, structured registers, targeted management plans, and mandatory training to drive effective change.
BENEFITS
Positive contribution to Biodiversity
Prevent traffickers from exploiting your infrastructure through proactive risk mitigation and training.
Stakeholder Confidence
Enhance trust with investors, customers, and regulators while protecting your organization’s reputation.
Regulatory Compliance
Ensure adherence to environmental laws and demonstrate commitment to sustainability.
Cost Efficiency
Reduce financial losses from seizures, investigations, and supply chain vulnerabilities.
Continuous Improvement
The certification has continuous improvement as the heartbeat of the program. Continual innovation and improvement ensures traffickers are always on the back foot and your supply chains are secure and more impervious to criminal exploitation
Councils
The ECO IWT Certification is based on thorough review and expert recommendations on the standards and requirements that organisations should implement to be effective in the fight against the illegal wildlife trade.
Training
A number of trainings options are available to ensure that an organisation has all of the required information to effectively recognise and stop illegal wildlife trafficking, prepare for an assessment and work towards an end to end certified supply chain that ensures that the maximum level of prevention of the illegal trade.
Get Certified!
Demonstrate your commitment to combating illegal wildlife trade (IWT) through our trusted certification process. Whether you're looking to understand how certification applies to your operations or you're ready to get started, our team is here to support you. Book a meeting to learn more, or contact us directly to begin your certification journey today.