Sustainability through ecotourism: improving livelihoods and disrupting wildlife trade, Cambodia
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main
VALUE £270,310
WHERE Cambodia
Summary
The Cardamom Rainforest Landscape, Cambodia forms part of a global biodiversity hotspot and is a major source of high-value wildlife products for the illegal wildlife trade. Poverty drives local engagement in illegal wildlife trade. By establishing Community Based Ecotourism (CBET) in key communities, this project will provide the infrastructure, skills, and management required to generate sustainable livelihoods. Through establishing CBET, and addressing drivers of wildlife trade and poverty within the landscape, this project will create a barrier to 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.
