A Community-based Conservation Approach to Combat Marine Illegal Wildlife Trade
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main
VALUE £300,000
WHERE Indonesia
Summary
We will build Conservation Cooperatives (CC) in Borneo’s largest marine protected area. 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 marine IWT into sustainable livelihood alternatives. It aims to improve protection for three threatened sea turtle species while improving well-being and reducing poverty for 750 households.
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.
