LICIT-II: Legal Intelligence and Community Governance for Cheetah Illicit Trade
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main
VALUE £597,001
WHERE Somalia, Ethiopia
Summary
This project will enhance national and regional capacity in the Horn of Africa to fight wildlife crime by leveraging gains made through LICIT (IWT-066). Developing new wildlife crime information and intelligence exchange platforms, and strengthening national and regional level legal capacity, will allow national enforcement agencies to work better together and, with neighboring jurisdictions, to reduce IWT. In addition, proposed community conservation governance will increase community capacity and ownership of wildlife resources, thereby tackling human wildlife conflict driving IWT.
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.
