Secure Funding for Wildlife Protection Initiatives

In support of the END Act, INL aims to achieve specific objectives to reduce the poaching and trafficking of wildlife through effective programming in key source, transit, and destination locations Sub-Saharn Africa. INL also aims to support increased coordination while building skills that enable sub-Saharan Africa’s criminal justice systems to disrupt the higher level syndicates involved in wildlife trafficking. INL leverages its unique foreign assistance authorities to contribute to the global fight against wildlife trafficking. Funds will be used to provide training, technical assistance, and equipment in sub-Saharan Africa to build institutional capacity for combating wildlife crime.

INL will support work that builds investigative and enforcement capability, strengthens legislative frameworks, and/or provides judicial and prosecutorial assistance. For example, activities may include training, technological interventions; mentorship to increase analysis on criminal networks, cybercrime, and/or financial routes in sub-Saharan Africa; and/or the provision of non-lethal equipment for park rangers, police, prosecutors, other relevant officials and, where applicable, non-governmental and civil society entities to address the multi-faceted dimensions of poaching and wildlife trafficking. To support further progress in sub-Saharan Africa, the U.S. Department of State has allocated $13,900,000 in International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement (INCLE) Funds to strengthen capacity in Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, and Tanzania.