Disrupting the illegal wildlife trade in grey parrots in Cameroon
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main
VALUE £355,397
WHERE Cameroon
Summary
This project will secure populations of African grey parrots (added to CITES in 2017) in Cameroon’s TRIDOM* landscape by protecting key parrot strongholds and strengthening law enforcement efforts to disrupt IWT through Cameroon at border areas and major transport hubs. This will be achieved by:
- building the capacity of law enforcement agents to detect, investigate and prosecute IWT cases
- identifying key parrot aggregation sites and adapting protected are management systems to enhance protection
- working with communities to tackle IWT and enhance resilience to wildlife crime
*Spread over Cameroon, the Republic of Congo and Gabon, TRIDOM gets its name from the initials of Dja,Odzala and Minkébé - three famous protected areas, each in a different country. The huge TRIDOM forest covers 178,000 km², or 10% of the whole Congo Basin rainforest.
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.
