Updates from the Wildlife Crime project for U-PCLG members

1. Wildlife Crime Project
1. What are the drivers and impacts of
wildlife crime?
2. What are the socio-economic profiles
of individuals who participate in wildlife
crime?
3. Which interventions are most effective
in reducing wildlife crime?

2. 1. What are the drivers and
impacts of wildlife crime?
 Evidence review of extent to which poverty is a
driver of wildlife crime. Focussing on Uganda
but bringing in international evidence as well.
Mariel Harrison (Imperial); Geoffrey Mwedde
(WCS) and Dilys Roe (IIED)
Due for completion by end of March 2015

3. 2. What are the socio-economic
profiles of individuals who
participate in wildlife crime?
 Identification of known poachers from
arrest data
 Survey of 2000 hh around QE and
Murchison
 Indirect questioning focussed on who
poaches and why, correlated against hh
wealth
 Prep work completed, main fieldwork Feb
– April, (Henry Travers, Imperial)

4. 3. Which interventions are
most effective?
 Park by park analysis attempting to correlate
different variables (eg patrol effort, expenditure
on community conservation) with crime (will
also feed into evidence review)
 Fieldwork to explore different response
interventions based on policy scenarios and
key informant interviews
 Park analysis nearly completed (Mariel and
Geoffrey)
 Fieldwork (Henry and Geoffrey) May – July
2015

5. Wildlife Crime Database
 Database finalised
 Ongoing digitisation of historical records
 Capacity building of UWA staff
(production of database manual and
training sessions)
 WCS (Andy Plumptre)

6. Role for U-PCLG?
 Inputs to evidence review
 Inputs to park by park analysis
 What next?