A/RES/80/227 Tackling illicit trafficking in wild fauna and flora, including timber and timber products, the illegal mining of and illicit trafficking in minerals and precious metals, illicit trafficking in waste and other crimes that affect the environment to raise awareness and reduce demand, as well as action to enhance the provision of adequate means of implementation; 4. Urges Member States to undertake or increase efforts to raise awareness about and address the problems and risks associated with the supply and transit of and demand for illicitly trafficked wild fauna and flora, timber and timber products, and minerals and precious metal products, and to devote resources for those purposes, including by improving cooperation with all relevant stakeholders; 5. Also urges Member States, in accordance with their domestic law, legal systems and international obligations, to provide one another with the broadest possible assistance, including mutual legal assistance, as appropriate, within their financial means, to enhance the effectiveness of action aimed at tackling illicit trafficking in wild fauna and flora, including timber and timber products, and the illegal mining of and illicit trafficking in minerals and precious metals, as well as illicit trafficking in waste and other crimes that affect the environment; 6. Encourages Member States to take the necessary and appropriate measures to ensure the consistency and compatibility of their relevant domestic legal frameworks, on a mutually agreed basis and where possible, in order to establish the criminalization, where appropriate, of the mining, possession, import, export, transport, buying or selling of minerals and precious metals obtained without proper legal authorization, including appropriate exploration and mining licenses or mineral transportation and other relevant permits, as well as the criminalization of the forgery or unlawful alteration of documents related to those crimes; 7. Also encourages Member States to take the necessary and appropriate measures to ensure the consistency and compatibility of their relevant domestic legal frameworks, on a mutually agreed basis and where possible, in order to establish the criminalization, where appropriate, of the capture, collection, exposure for sale, import, export, purchase, sale, delivery, transportation, transfer, receipt, acquisition, possession or holding in custody of specimens of wild fauna and flora, including timber and timber products, without legal authorization, as well as the criminalization of the forgery or unlawful alteration of documents related to those crimes; 8. Further encourages Member States to establish, in accordance with their national legislation, where appropriate, the illegal mining of and illicit trafficking in minerals and precious metals as serious crimes, as defined in article 2 (b) of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, and to take suitable measures, where the offence is transnational in nature and involves an organized criminal group, to prevent and combat the illegal mining of and illicit trafficking in minerals and precious metals; 9. Calls upon Member States to establish illicit trafficking in protected species of wild fauna and flora and other crimes that affect the environment, such as trafficking in wildlife, timber and hazardous wastes, involving an organized criminal group as serious crimes, in accordance with their national legislation and article 2 (b) of the Organized Crime Convention; 10. Encourages Member States to develop or amend their national legislation, as necessary and appropriate, in accordance with the fundamental principles of their domestic law, so that the illegal mining of and illicit trafficking in minerals and precious metals can be considered as predicate offences, as defined in the Organized Crime Convention and as mandated in its article 6, for the purposes of money laundering offences and are actionable under domestic legislation on proceeds of crime, so that assets derived from such crimes can be seized, confiscated and disposed of; 4/6 25-20945