This booklet supports and includes recommendations for a full and comprehensive programme to address and maximize the effectiveness and impact of the legal, institutional and technical framework, tools and collaboration in place to combat illegal logging and wildlife crime in the Danube-Carpathian region. The analysis highlights the findings of a 2016 legal analysis, and pays special attention to illegal logging, illegal fishing of sturgeon and the caviar trade, the illegal killing of birds and the poaching of large carnivores.