Another £5m available from Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge fund

Howard Lake | 21 August 2015 | News

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The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) is offering a further £5 million to help tackle the illegal wildlife trade as it invites funding applications to round two of its Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge.

The fund will donate £13 over four years (2014-2018) to help existing, practical projects that:

• develop sustainable livelihoods for communities affected by illegal wildlife trade

• strengthen law enforcement and the role of the criminal justice system

• reduce demand for the products of the illegal wildlife trade

The first round of the Challenge Fund distributed £5 million to 19 projects. It certainly faces a huge problem. The illegal wildlife trade is estimated to be worth £6 billion each year, threatening both widlife and people.

Applications to the Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund are open until midnight on Monday 12 October 2015.

Image: Black Rhino – animals under threat. (c) ZSL

About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.