The insurance firm has selected their biodiversity project to be an ongoing investigation into tiger poaching and tiger parts trafficking. This investigation will gather intelligence on tiger poaching events, tiger poachers, tiger parts shipments, and the trafficking syndicate members who (1) buy tiger parts from poachers, (2) arrange transport of the ensuing shipments, and (3) arrange final retail sales of such shipments to Chinese consumers. Such intelligence will be verified and then forwarded to wildlife protection agencies. Possession of such verified intelligence will enable these agencies to make arrests of surveilled traffickers and pursue convictions of these suspects.
The project will be implemented by leveraging current capabilities of the firm's SIU. Specifically,