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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