Wildlife crime update

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Tackling wildlife crime through community engagement in Uganda

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• 3 year project (April 2014 – March 2017)

• Implemented by UWA, WCS, IIED, ICCS

• Funded by the UK Govt Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund

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1. Build national (Ugandan) capacity to deliver pro-poor responses to wildlife crime

2. Draw out lessons learned that have international applicability.

Objectives

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• Research - who undertakes wildlife crime and why, what interventions work and why

• Capacity development – Wildlife crime database

• Changes in policy and practice – redesigned policies and new wildlife crime interventions at Murchison & Queen Elizabeth National Parks

3 Components

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Workshop to engage UWA

Explore views by UWA staff on• who undertakes wildlife crime & their reasons for doing so• which propoor interventions are most effective in reducing wildlife

crime

Determine key challenges to implementing propoor interventions & how this project might help overcome these

Develop a programme for achieving• 1 new or improved intervention at both national parks• Redesign & implementation of wildlife crime policies in at least 1

national park

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Wildlife Crime – what threat & how much effort?

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Wildlife Crime – what threat & how much effort?

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Wildlife Crime – where are the challenges?

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Intervention Possible in Uganda?

Conditions

Community rangers

Improved HWC mitigation

Performance based payments

More resource access

More income earning opportunities

Other possibilities?

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Improved HWC mitigation

Improved / increased income opportunities

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Next steps

ResearchWorkshopMarch 2016

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Evidence Review Launch Event