Increasing Capacity for Anti-Poaching and Enhancing Human-Elephant Coexistence
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main
VALUE £123,700
WHERE Tanzania
Summary
This project will strengthen the capacity of wildlife authorities in Rungwa-Kizigo-Muhesi Game Reserves to combat wildlife poaching, and enhance human-elephant coexistence via community beehive-fences and community-led elephant monitoring networks and awareness days. STEP will work with protection departments to expand aerial surveillance and capacity for integrating patrol and surveillance data into intelligence-led ranger mobilizations. Coexistence interventions will increase food security, provide additional income, eliminate human and elephant deaths, and reduce tolerance for elephant poaching.
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.
