Reducing Illegal Wildlife Trafficking through a Community-based Conservation Approach
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main
VALUE £363,150
WHERE Indonesia
Summary
We build Conservation Cooperatives (CC) at two sites in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. The CC approach reduces IWT through a holistic strategy that integrates community-based law enforcement alongside healthcare and poverty reduction through livelihood development and financial services provision to empower communities to shift away from IWT into sustainable livelihood alternatives. It aims to improve wildlife densities for five threatened species while improving well being and reducing poverty for 1741 households and generating novel insights into strategies to reduce IWT equitably.
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.
