Developing long-term law enforcement capacity to protect the Mali elephants
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main
VALUE £300,000
WHERE Mali, Burkina Faso
Summary
Mali has in improved capacity to co-ordinate activities in tracking and tracing elephant poaching, bringing poachers to justice and enforcing poaching laws. This will halt the current escalation of poaching by severely impeding the operation of elephant poaching and ivory trafficking networks in Mali, and thereby maintain elephant numbers. The increased government capacity will feed in to support local systems of resource management that improve livelihoods and make space for elephants, while increasing security.
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.
