Reducing IWT in Sumatra across two globally important tiger landscapes
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main
VALUE £389,881
WHERE Indonesia
Summary
This project will stem IWT across Sumatra, focusing on two priority Tiger Conservation Landscapes (Kerinci-Seblat, Ulu Masen) protecting >60% of all Sumatran tigers. It will disrupt organised IWT networks by strengthening community and government collaboration and capacity to investigate and prosecute wildlife crime, thereby increasing prosecutions and reducing poaching. Target species will experience reduced poaching pressure, local women and men will actively participate in and benefit from actions to address IWT and c.50,000ha will be under stronger law enforcement.
WCS - Sumatra, Police in Jambi-Padang-South Sumatera-Bengkulu (KSNP), Kerinci Birdwatching Club (KSNP), FMUs in Sarolangun, Kerinci & Bungo (KSNP), Lingkar Institute (Kerinci Seblat National Park, KSNP), Aceh Police Department (UM, Institution Conservation Society (ICS), Three Aceh Forest Management Units (FMUs) in the region, Aceh Community Rangers (ACR) (UM), Flora Fauna Aceh (Flona) (UM)
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.
