Wildlife in Indonesia, Loss, Damage, & Sanctions (WILDS)
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main
VALUE £297,237
WHERE Vietnam, Mexico, Kenya, Indonesia, Cambodia, Brazil, Argentina, Angola
Summary
The project challenges impunity among IWT perpetrators through innovations to increase sanctions, so they better reflect the injuries to society (e.g., on livelihoods, biodiversity, culture). It compares international sanctions to IWT, and initiates international “best practices” standards. In Indonesia, it engages experts and government officials to review sanctions, and provides expertise to quantify the costs of IWT on society, and applies these to a first-of-a-kind civil liability suit to hold IWT perpetrators financially responsible for environmental harm.
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.
