Holding Uganda-based transnational wildlife criminals accountable by empowering financial investigations
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main
VALUE £454,437
WHERE Uganda
Summary
The project will help Uganda’s wildlife enforcement bodies leapfrog the hurdles to catching and convicting transnational wildlife traffickers by: a) scaling up financial investigations at the Natural Resource Conservation Network (NRCN) and its partners Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) and Uganda Revenue Authority (URA); b) upgrading financial network analysis skills, including open-source intelligence, mobile payments and cryptocurrencies; c) advancing IWT cases by building prosecutorial skills to argue financial aspects in court; d) facilitating information flows to/from transport and financial firms.
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.
