Developing investigation and prosecution capacity to save Angola’s elephants
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main
VALUE £395,160
WHERE Angola
Summary
This project aims to deliver priority actions in Angola’s National Ivory Action Plan and National Elephant Action Plan, by doing the following:
• Strengthening criminal justice system for wildlife crime.
• Investigating, analysing and reducing domestic and trans-boundary ivory trade.
• Development of sustainable alternative livelihoods for ivory traders.
National Institute for Biodiversity and Conservation Areas (INBAC), Ministry of Environment, Angola., Conservation International - Fiji, Save the Elephants, EIA - Environmental Investigation Agency, Kissama Foundation
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.
