pro-poor responses to wildlife crime wildlife crime
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Building capacity for pro-poor responses to wildlife crime in UgandaTRANSCRIPT
Mariel Harrison
Illegal
Wildlife Trade (IWT)
Challenge Fund
What is the problem?
London Conference on Illegal Wildlife Trade
Strengthen law enforcement
IUCN World Parks Congress
“protected areas should strive to contribute to poverty reduction at the local level, and
at the very minimum must not contribute to or exacerbate poverty”
vs.
What are we going to do?
Evidence reviewWildlife crime
Any harm (including intent and trade) to non-domesticated wild animals, plants and fungi, in contravention of national and international
laws and conventions
Nationale.g. from rural to urban
areas
LocalWithin ‘local’ community
of similar social status
SubsistenceFor use/consumption
personally/within household
CommercialTo generate monetary income or to
be used as currency
RevengeDamage caused to wildlife without material
‘use’, in response to livestock predation, crop raiding or social injustice for example
International
To meet the demand of the diaspora
community
To meet foreign demand
Pre-emptive Reactive
Evidence review
OECD-DAC – Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Development Assistance Committee
Ability to earn an income, consume and have assets
Access to productive resources
Access to healthcare and good education
Ability to withstand economic and external shocks, affected by food insecurity, illness,
crime, war and destitution
Human rights, a voice, some influence over policies and
political priorities
Ability to participate as a valued member of a community
Hunting bushmeat
Economic poverty(no livestock or money to buy meat)
Political poverty(injustice of revenue sharing)
Human poverty(malnutrition, worms, education)
Consume in household Sell Caught
Reduces economic poverty
(possess meat)
Reduces human poverty
(treat malnutrition)
Reduces economic poverty
(monetary income)
Reduces human poverty
(use income to pay school fees)
Increases economic poverty
(pay fines, absent earner)
Increases socio-cultural poverty
(loss of status and dignity)
Increases protective poverty
(insecurity, risk of capture)
Is it the same scenario for all protected areas?
Is it the same scenario for all commodities?
Ivory poaching
Increased law enforcement?
Presence of armed poachers?
Recruitment of local people?
Reduces protective poverty
(improved local security)
Increases protective poverty
(worsens local security)
Reduces economic poverty
(local income and market)
We need your help!Do you know of any examples of how wildlife crime interacts with poverty?
Or instances of wildlife crime unrelated to poverty?
Speak to me (Mariel) during one of the breaks today
e-mail me: [email protected]
Call me: 0786 713 070
Arrange to meet next week
Send me any reports or information you might have
Tell me of anybody who might be useful to talk to
THANK YOU!