Securing Mongolia’s Borders and Communities against Wildlife Trafficking
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main
VALUE £336,435
WHERE Mongolia
Summary
This project will strengthen Mongolia’s border law enforcement capacity, enable inter-agency intelligence sharing and empower border communities to combat IWT and associated cross-border criminality, including human-trafficking. Key activities include targeted training, equipping, and performance-based incentivisation of Border Detector Dog units, and associated law enforcement staff at three prioritised pilot sites; establishing a national Wildlife Crime Control Task Force, to promote effective inter-agency and transnational intelligence sharing; and developing Community Surveillance Networks, increasing awareness, and reporting of IWT and associated criminality.
Mongolian Gender Equality Center (MGEC), United Kingdom Border Force, Home Office (UKBF), Mongolia’s National Police Agency, Department of Combatting Organised Crime, Ecologic Crime Division (NPA), General Authority for Customs (Customs), Ministry of Environment and Tourism of Mongolia (MET)
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.