From Forests to Courts: Combatting IWT in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main
VALUE £300,000
WHERE Indonesia
Summary
This project will incorporate both in-situ community-led activities that improve the socioeconomic conditions and create access to tenurial rights for 15 Indigenous Dayak communities, and support 4 ex-situ law enforcement agencies and journalists to address gaps in trade monitoring, intelligence-led investigations, and crime reporting that can reduce opportunities and increase the risks for IWT intermediaries operating outside of forests and exploiting rural poverty in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
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.
