Transboundary problem-solving to prevent the international trafficking of Malayan tigers
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main
VALUE £598,825
WHERE Vietnam, Malaysia
Summary
Malaysia’s tigers are in crisis with less than 150 remaining. Poaching groups, particularly from Vietnam, pose a critical threat, while also impacting clouded leopard, sun bear, Sunda pangolin, and Aquilaria spp. The project will apply a problem-oriented wildlife protection approach along trafficking routes, addressing the recruitment of poachers, poaching within Malaysia’s tiger landscapes, and smuggling of wildlife products at sea. Lessons learned will be shared for application in other landscapes and to a broader range of wildlife trafficking issues.
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.
