Empowering Malawi’s government agencies to control wildlife crime related corruption
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main
VALUE £520,098
WHERE Malawi
Summary
The Basel Institute/Lilongwe Wildlife Trust (LWT) project tackles environmental crime in Malawi by combining Basel’s anti-corruption and LWT’s wildlife and forestry crime expertise. Where corruption has already been committed, the project supports the Anti-Corruption Bureau to sanction it through investigations and prosecutions that target the traffickers’ finances and assets. To stem the onslaught of more corruption, the project strengthens the resilience of internal risk management systems of the Departments of National Parks
and Wildlife, Forestry and Police.
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.
