Combating IWT: strengthening partnerships and promoting resiliency of local communities
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main
VALUE £585,096
WHERE Nepal
Summary
This project addresses threats to tiger, rhino, and other endangered species in Tribeni, an IWT hotspot in Nepal, through improved national and transnational coordination, standardised intelligence sharing and upskilling of law enforcement and judiciary staff in human-rights, investigation, evidence collection, and prosecution of IWT cases. The project will also work to reduce IWT drivers, including poverty and human- wildlife conflict, using community-based methods that have proven to be effective and sustainable elsewhere including community banking, diversified livelihoods, and HWC mitigation.
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.