# Another £5 million available from Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge fund

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/08/21/another-5m-available-from-illegal-wildlife-trade-challenge-fund/
- Published: 2015-08-21T07:43:24+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**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

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• 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](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/illegal-wildlife-trade-challenge-fund-list-of-existing-projects)
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](https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/illegal-wildlife-trade-iwt-challenge-fund#round-2-2015-applications)
are open until midnight on Monday 12 October 2015.

 

_Image: Black Rhino – animals under threat. (c) [ZSL](http://www.zsl.org/)_

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