{"id":352095,"date":"2025-12-16T14:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T08:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=352095"},"modified":"2025-12-16T14:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T08:57:08","slug":"operation-thunder-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/operation-thunder-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Thunder 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News<\/strong>: More than 30,000 live animals, along with protected plants and timber, have been seized under Operation Thunder 2025.<\/p>\n<h2>About Operation Thunder 2025<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_352096\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-352096\" style=\"width: 373px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-352096\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Source-INTERPOL.jpg?resize=373%2C184&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Operation Thunder 2025\" width=\"373\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Source-INTERPOL.jpg?resize=300%2C148&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Source-INTERPOL.jpg?resize=1024%2C506&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Source-INTERPOL.jpg?resize=768%2C380&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Source-INTERPOL.jpg?w=1331&amp;ssl=1 1331w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 373px) 100vw, 373px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-352096\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; INTERPOL<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Operation Thunder 2025 is a major <strong>international law enforcement <\/strong>crackdown on <strong>illegal wildlife and forestry trade.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Operation is in its <strong>ninth year<\/strong> and is <strong>conducted annually.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Aim<\/strong>: Its aim was to <strong>intercept and seize illegally traded wildlife<\/strong> and <strong>forest products<\/strong>, disrupt global supply chains, dismantle criminal networks and identify suspects involved in environmental crime<\/li>\n<li><strong>Countries involved<\/strong>: It involved enforcement <strong>agencies in 134 countries.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Leading Organizations:<\/strong> It is coordinated by <strong>Interpol<\/strong> and the <strong>World Customs Organization (WCO)<\/strong>, with support from the <strong>International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime (ICCWC).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Funded by:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>European Union<\/strong> through the <strong>ICCWC GUARD Wildlife Project<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Department for Environment, Food &amp; Rural Affairs, United Kingdom (UK DEFRA)<\/strong> through the <strong>ICCWC\u2013<\/strong><strong>UK DEFRA Project<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Norway<\/strong><strong>\u2019<\/strong><strong>s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI)<\/strong> through the <strong>LEAP Project<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Note<\/strong>:<\/span> In India, the <strong>Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB)<\/strong> under the <strong>Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change<\/strong> acts as the <strong>coordinating agency <\/strong>for such global operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: More than 30,000 live animals, along with protected plants and timber, have been seized under Operation Thunder 2025. About Operation Thunder 2025 Operation Thunder 2025 is a major international law enforcement crackdown on illegal wildlife and forestry trade. The Operation is in its ninth year and is conducted annually. Aim: Its aim was to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/operation-thunder-2025\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Operation Thunder 2025<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,1236],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-352095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-international-organisations","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}