Breaking the chain: combating the illegal trade in ploughshare tortoises
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main
VALUE £215,932
WHERE Thailand, Malaysia, Madagascar, Indonesia
Summary
Poaching no longer seriously threatens the ploughshare tortoise as communities and MNP more effectively guard and monitor this species alongside improved law enforcement and cooperation along the trade chain.
Government of Madagascar - Ministry of Environment and Forest (MEF), Turtle Conservancy (TC), Madagasikara Voakajy
(MaVoa), Alliance Voahary Gasy
(AVG), Madagascar National
Parks (MNP), UK Border Force, WCS - Wildlife Conservation Society, TRAFFIC - East and Southern Africa
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.
