Counter-Poaching Training Programme for Sub-Saharan Africa
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main
VALUE £421,275
WHERE Zambia, South Africa, Rwanda, Mozambique, Malawi, Congo, Chad
Summary
The project aims to reduce poaching of rhino and elephant within specific protected areas in sub-Saharan Africa, by significantly improving parks’ law enforcement capacity. Training will be provided to rangers in proven interception tracking tactics, to reduce the number of poaching incidents and arrest poachers. Additional training in information gathering and analysis - and the establishment of an information network between protected areas - will improve coordination of national and international efforts to disrupt illegal wildlife trade.
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.
