Disrupting international wildlife trafficking networks in West and Central Africa
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main
VALUE £560,000
WHERE Nigeria, Gabon, Cameroon
Summary
This project will reduce the international trafficking of elephant ivory and pangolins in West/Central Africa. It will do this by building more effective criminal justice responses to organised wildlife trafficking in Nigeria by working with government and civil-society organisations. The project will generate information to inform intelligence-led law enforcement investigations into trafficking and corruption, build capacity for wildlife crime financial investigations, and enhance regional cooperation, including with Gabon and Cameroon.
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.
