Tackling Illegal Wildlife Trade in the Nigeria-Cameroon Green Corridor
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main
VALUE £430,000
WHERE Nigeria, Cameroon
Summary
This project will provide protection for a Nigeria-Cameroon transboundary Green Corridor for elephants, pangolins and chimpanzees. It will focus on where protection is weakest in Nigeria, and gather IWT intelligence around two key sites in Nigeria on criminal networks trading wildlife across the international border in Cameroon. Working with government and local communities, we will reduce IWT and improve regional security with improved transboundary inter-agency cooperation and capacity building.
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.
