A/RES/80/227 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 22 December 2025 Eightieth session Agenda item 107 Crime prevention and criminal justice Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2025 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/80/545, para. 5)] 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 The General Assembly, Alarmed by existing research indicating that crimes that affect the environment, in particular 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, have become some of the most lucrative transnational criminal activities and are often closely interlinked with different forms of crime and corruption, and that the proceeds of crime derived from crimes that affect the environment and associated money-laundering and the illicit financial flows derived from such crimes may contribute to the financing of transnational organized crime and terrorism, Alarmed also by the environmental damage and the economic and social impacts caused by crimes that affect the environment to ecosystems and biodiversity, as well as to individuals, to Indigenous Peoples and to local communities, and stressing the importance of involving affected groups in efforts to tackle those crimes, Recalling its resolutions 69/314 of 30 July 2015, 70/301 of 9 September 2016, 71/326 of 11 September 2017, 73/343 of 16 September 2019, 75/311 of 31 July 2021 and 77/325 of 25 August 2023 on tackling illicit trafficking in wildlife and 76/185 of 16 December 2021 on preventing and combating crimes that affect the environment, Recalling also Economic and Social Council resolution 2019/23 of 23 July 2019, entitled “Combating transnational organized crime and its links to illicit trafficking in precious metals and illegal mining, including by enhancing the security of supply chains of precious metals”, Recalling further Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice resolution 31/1 of 20 May 2022, entitled “Strengthening the international legal 25-20945 (E) *2520945*