​Speaking at the national level workshop on capacity building for effective Wildlife Law Enforcement, Kamal Datta, joint director of the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau in India, acknowledged that there is a shortage of data when it comes to wildlife crime. Among other things, he considered that a good knowledge of the law was important to counter wildlife trafficking. 

When we introduce Legal Atlas, our passion for legal intelligence and creating better legal systems, we are often asked, why? Why spend so much time and effort on the law? Isn't it all about corruption? Doesn't it all just come down to bad implementation, or enforcement, or political will? 

​This is our short, non-academic response - not to be confused with Alon Harel's book of the same title as this little blog entry. Which is worth reading if you need a more academic approach to the topic.