Building evidence to reduce demand for wildlife products in Peru
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Evidence
VALUE £99,902
WHERE Peru
Summary
Belén is the largest, most important open-market selling wildlife in the Peruvian Amazon and the key point where poached wildlife converged in Iquitos is illegally traded, threatening the survival of species and the wellbeing of the region’s poorest citizens. Using innovative approaches, this project will build the evidence needed to design a behaviour change campaign that reduces illegal wildlife trade in Belén and provide robust national/regional guidance to support sustainable, legal livelihood transitions for low-income communities
currently dependent on IWT.
SPDA (Peruvian Society for Environmental Law), Regional Management of Forest Development and Wildlife (GRDFFS), WCS - Peru, United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
Over 600 arrests and more than 500 convictions in wildlife crime since 2017, alongside a decline in ivory trafficking cases and an increase in elephant and rhino populations.
