By Jayne Horswill | Project Leader
Thank you for donating to our Protecting Pangolins project. Your support helps to fund our ground-based conservation partners who work to protect pangolins and change attitudes towards consuming wildlife products in both Africa and Asia.
With over 300 pangolins being taken from the wild and trafficked every day, the situation facing the species is dire. Used in traditional medicines, for bushmeat and as a delicacy, the pangolin is being exploited to extinction. With your generous help and support, we are doing all we can to ensure these species have a chance at survival.
This year, one of the pangolin projects DSWF has been supporting with our ground-based conservation partners is in Uganda, which plays home to all four of the African pangolin subspecies.
Work being undertaken in the country aims to address major trafficking and poaching hotspots and transit hubs for the illegal trade, brings together key government stakeholders, businesses and civil society to effect change.
Major progress has been made focusing on investigations and prosecutions into pangolin trafficking chains and how to best disrupt these criminal organisations and poaching networks. By bringing together law enforcement agencies and financial intelligence authorities, we are helping to improve the collaboration needed to shut down these major trafficking syndicates.
Since the project started, we have already seen successful arrests and prosecutions of people engaged in the illegal wildlife trade and pangolin trafficking, resulting in custodial sentences being given. This not only helps to stop existing cartels and disrupts their operations, but also acts as a major deterrent to those considering engaging in illegal wildlife activity.
Across Africa, governments struggle with the lack of effective tools and resources needed to ensure accurate, relevant and strong legislation is applied and implemented and that relevant laws are enforced. By working to better engage and train government authorities in identifying wildlife trafficking cases and supporting financial investigations, we hope to dramatically reduce and ultimately stop the poaching, capture and export of pangolins from Africa to Asian consumer markets.
Your ongoing support will help ultimately end the illegal trade in pangolins and their products which is threatening populations around the world.
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