Capacity for Enforcement
Adaptive Management in the USAID CWT Portfolio: Current Practice and Opportunities
USAID’s combating wildlife trafficking portfolio offers an opportunity to understand how adaptive management is practiced across a discrete portfolio.
USAID Wildlife Asia as a case study in adaptive rigour: Monitoring, evaluation and learning for adaptive management
In 2018, the USAID Office of Forestry and Biodiversity and Measuring Impact II began a collaboration with the USAID Bureau for Policy, Planning, and Learning and the UK Department for International Development.
Combating Wildlife Trafficking Learning Exchange: Meeting Report
In November 2019, USAID hosted a regional CWT learning exchange in Bangkok, Thailand.
Conservation and Law Enforcement in Gorongosa and Niassa: A Study of the Criminal Justice Process for Wildlife Crime, from Apprehension to Incarceration
In July 2019, USAID/Mozambique released a comprehensive study of the wildlife criminal justice process in Mozambique and identified key areas for improvement.
How Does Developing Enforcement Capacity Reduce Wildlife Crime?
"How Does Developing Enforcement Capacity Reduce Wildlife Crime?" summarizes findings from the literature around four key assumptions about capacity building for enforcement and prosecution.
Evaluating the Design of Behavior Change Interventions: A Case Study of Rhino Horn in Vietnam
Behavioral change interventions are increasingly widely used in conservation.
Measuring Efforts to Combat Wildlife Crime: A Toolkit for Improving Action and Accountability
This resource (also known as the CWT Toolkit) includes results chains, suggested indicators, and suggested outcome statements for ten common strategic approaches to combat wildlife crime.
Such Misconducts Don’t Make a Good Ranger Examining Law Enforcement Ranger Wrongdoing in Uganda
This case study offers an in-depth examination of rangers’ experiences with and perceptions of wrongdoing in a specific Ugandan protected area.
WildLeaks
WildLeaks is the world’s first, secure, online whistleblower initiative dedicated to Wildlife and Forest Crime.
Wildlife & Forest Crime Analytic Toolkit
This toolkit is intended to serve as an initial entry point for national governments, international actors, practitioners and scholars to better understand the complexity of wildlife and forest crime, and to serve as a framework around which a prevention and response strategy can be developed.
Wildlife Crime: A Guide to the Use of Forensic & Specialist Techniques in the Investigation of Wildlife Crime
This handbook is aimed at enforcement officers involved in wildlife crime investigation.
Competence Standards for Protected Area Jobs in South East Asia
This guide by the ASEAN Regional Centre for Biodiversity Conservation provides suggested competence standards for protected area jobs, including enforcement agents.
Dismantling Wildlife Crime
This summary report, developed in preparation for the 2012 Fuller Science for Nature Symposium on Conservation Crime, provides a high-level overview of persistent challenges and suggested priorities for improving the effectiveness of enforcement efforts.
Strengthening the Weakest Links: Strategies for Improving the Enforcement of Environmental Laws Globally
This report presents a theoretical framework for enforcement as well as a deep analysis of four country case studies on their performance with enforcement of environmental laws.
Strategies for Enforcing Wildlife Trade Regulations in Ulaanbaatar
This case study reviews and recommends strategies to regulate wildlife trade through Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
In Cold Blood: Combating Organized Wildlife Crime
This gray-lit report on the scale and scope of global wildlife trafficking issues includes a summary of major relevant international resolutions and agreements.
The Disappearing Act: The Illicit Trade in Wildlife in Asia
A Foreign Policy working paper by the Brookings Institution that reviews the current status of illegal wildlife trade in Asia and provides a broad set of guidelines for designing policy responses.
Criminal Justice Response to Wildlife and Forest Crime in Cambodia: A Rapid Assessment
A 2015 rapid assessment by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime on the status of Cambodian criminal justice response to wildlife crime.
Managing Wildlife Crime in And Around Protected Areas: A Training Guideline for Field Rangers
A training guideline produced by IUCN that provides a benchmark of best practices for field ranger trainers, which “covers the basics of operations and the tactics required for them to successfully carry out anti-poaching and operations in the field.
Policing the Wilderness: A Descriptive Study of Wildlife Conservation Officers in South Africa
A qualitative case study of the careers of field rangers in South Africa using data gathered from interviews and observation in six public and private game reserves, two training schools, and a university program.
