Propoor Wildlife CrimeUWA Planning Workshop

8th and 9th July 2015

Kampala

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Changes in policy and practice

Why this workshop?

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By project end….

March 2017

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One new or improved intervention to tackle wildlife crime based on local people’s views of

what’s effective

implemented at both Murchison Falls & Queen Elizabeth

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Wildlife crime policies re-designed for fairness & are being implemented in at least one

National Park

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This workshop…

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• 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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Workshop objectives

Group Session 1

Wildlife crime

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What wildlife crime happens in your Park?

then rank…

threat to conservationUWA’s level of effort to deal with it

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Low

Low HighEffort

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Group Session 2

Profiles & Motivations

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For each wildlife crime…

Who undertakes the crime?

& why they do so?

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Educated?

Ethnicity?

Poor, less poor?

Male, Female?

Local? Outsider?

Foreigner?Young, Old?

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Wildlife Crime Profiles Motivations

Elephant poachingForeigners Make money

locals Human – elephantconflict

Firewood collection

Bushmeat hunting

Group Session 3

Interventions

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What interventions do you use to tackle wildlife crime in your Park?

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What interventions do you use to tackle wildlife crime in your Park?

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Targeted patrols

Ambush

Informant networks

Community sensitization

Reformed poachers

Revenue sharing

Which specific interventions do you use to tackle each specific crime?

Map onto matrix

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Wildlife Crime Profiles Motivations Interventions

Elephant poachingForeigners Make money Armed, targeted

patrols

locals Human – elephantconflict

Sensitization

Firewood collection

Bushmeat hunting

Traffic Lights

Challenge increasingNeither increasing nor decreasing

Problem under control

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Wildlife Crime Profiles Motivations Interventions Traffic lights

Elephant poaching

Foreigners Make money Armed, targeted patrols

locals Human –elephantconflict

Sensitization

Firewood collection

Bushmeathunting

What works, what doesn’t & why?

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Day Two

Summary

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Who undertakes poaching & why?

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Poverty is half of the story…

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Feelings that conservation is unfair

–equally important in

driving illegal activities

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From US$5 to US$10

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Tackling wildlife crime without making local poverty worse

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Workshop March 2016

One new or improved intervention to tackle wildlife crime,

based on local people’s views,implemented at both Murchison Falls & Queen

Elizabeth

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By March 2017

Wildlife crime policies re-designed for fairness & are being implemented in at least one

National Park

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By March 2017

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This workshop…

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Day Two

Community approaches to tackling wildlife crime – could these work for Uganda?

Collaborative planning• One new or improved intervention at both Queen & Murchison• Wildlife policy redesigned for fairness & implemented in at least one

national park

Day Two

Collaborative Planning

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One new or improved intervention to tackle wildlife crime,

based on local people’s views,implemented at both Murchison Falls & Queen

Elizabeth

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Wildlife crime policies re-designed for fairness & are being implemented in at least one

National Park

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This workshop…

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This workshop…

Planning for interventions & policy

What needs to be in place & when by?Who needs to make the decisions?

When do they need to make these by?

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