WHERE Zimbabwe, Zambia, Philippines, Mexico, Indonesia, India, Cameroon, Brazil
Summary
IWT causes cascading harms that are rarely accounted for by traditional enforcement. We use strategic liability lawsuits to demand that high-level violators be held responsible for providing remedies to fix the harms they cause. Laws in many countries already allow this – but are not yet operationalised for biodiversity. We will build a global movement of conservation lawsuits, leading precedent-setting cases in Indonesia, Cameroon and India. We will also lay the groundwork and build capacity for future lawsuits globally.
LaW - Law and Wildlife, Last Great Apes Organisation, Wildlife Trust of India, Indonesian Center for Environmental Law, Environmental Law Institute (ELI), DLA Piper
Regions
Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, South America, East Asia, Central America
Species
ELEPHANT, PANGOLINS, CHIMPANZEE, ORANGUTAN
Countries
Zimbabwe, Zambia, Philippines, Mexico, Indonesia, India, Cameroon, Brazil
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.
