Winning the battle will require getting the right people around the table.

It’s early days at the conference of the parties to the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Flora and Fauna.

The 3 500 delegates from 182 countries have barely made a dent on the agenda on regulating the treatment of 500 endangered plant, insect and animal species.

One thing is certain, there will be a more muscular international  approach to beating environmental crime

As Interpol’s natural resources coordinator Davyth Stewart explains, the end game for the conservationists is only the starting line for the people responsible for bringing poachers and the like to book.

“Seizing a consignment of poached ivory is the beginning of battle, not the end,”  said Stewart

The battle for the future of species is moving from those sporting green to those in blue uniforms.

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