INTERPOL informs: An international operation (Madre Tierra VIII) coordinated by INTERPOL has dismantled environmental crime networks across nine countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, leading to 233 arrests, the recovery of more than 1,000 animals, and the identification of 60,000 hectares of illegally cleared forest. Investigators from Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama determined that illegal timber and wildlife trafficking networks were operating on an industrial scale along the corridor connecting Central and South America.

Caged lion recovered in Mexico