Expanding Local Intelligence Networks to Combat Jaguar IWT in Bolivia
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main
VALUE £270,000
WHERE Bolivia
Summary
We propose to strengthen the capacity of key Bolivian actors to address jaguar teeth trade and reduce jaguar losses in 30% of Bolivia’s jaguar habitat through: i) enforcing wildlife trafficking-related laws to increase convictions, ii) expanding rural and urban outreach efforts about the illegality of jaguar trafficking, iii) developing local enforcement protocols for addressing trafficking incidents, and iv) improving control and vigilance capacity of indigenous people, park guards, ranchers, tourism operators and local governments to safeguard natural resource management livelihoods.
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.
