EU invests $20 million to fight poaching, trafficking
Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) anti-poaching squad perform a patrol in search of poachers and displaced elephants through the Kora National Park on January 30, 2013. AFP PHOTO | IVAN LIEMAN
The European Union has invested $20 million in a new cross-regional wildlife programme to assist wildlife rich countries in East, Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean regions to fight poaching and trafficking of wildlife products.
The deal — signed between the EU, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species(Cites) and the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) — will concentrate its activities in the regions’ protected areas, national transit points, and transboundary ecosystems.
