The goal of the DEES program is to enhance investigations and increase the numbers of successful prosecutions of coservation crimes. The program will use U.S. subject matter experts (SME) in the field of digital evidence exploitation specifically related to conservation crime and will provide training, equipment and monthly DEES/SME mentoring seesions over 2 years.

The DEES program is designed to strengthen the capacity of and build stronger relations with, our conservation enforcement counterparts in other countries to combat conservation crime worldwide.