The project will put in place the first capacity focused on cracking wildlife smuggling in Madagascar. Focusing on the most threatened tortoise in the world, community-based patrollers will be incentivised to protect wild sites; national law enforcers will be trained in intelligence-led investigations and these techniques will be used to target smugglers who are moving wildlife out of the country. Formal collaboration between Ministries will be built to establish the foundation for sustainable national counterwildlife trafficking capacity.
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.
