Combatting cross-border illegal wildlife trade in the Lower Zambezi, Zambia
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main
VALUE £335,683
WHERE Zimbabwe, Zambia
Summary
This project will disrupt wildlife crime and trafficking across the Zambia and Zimbabwe border. In response to a surge in trans-border wildlife crime and trafficking through the Lower Zambezi Area Management Unit, Conservation Lower Zambezi, in partnership with Department of National Parks & Wildlife and Wildlife Crime Prevention, aims to disrupt IWT through a number of strategic and cohesive projects building enforcement capacity, strengthening investigations, supporting effective law enforcement and increasing the ngagement of community stakeholders. Strong collaboration and essential capacity building will enable the relevant authorities to take down middle-higher tier criminal actors that are using the Lower Zambezi as a transit route for wildlife products.
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.
