Youth and Women in Combating Wildlife Crime

World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is hosting 3 virtual webinars on the role of youth and women in combating wildlife crime. 

The details are as follows: 

Day 1: Monday 21st September 2020 - 10.00 - 13.00 EAT

Day 2: Tuesday 22nd September 2020 - 10.00 - 13.00 EAT

Day 3: Wednesday 23rd September 2020 - 10.00 - 13.00 EAT

The webinars anchored on objectives of East African Community Strategy to combat poaching, illegal trade and trafficking of wildlife and wildlife products. This is of the CONNECT - a USAID funded project which aims to strengthen the conservation and management of natural resources shared by East African countries including wildlife and landscapes popularly referred to as transboundary natural resources. 

The project is implemented by a consortium of regional organizations led by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) through the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO) in partnership with TRAFFIC - the wildlife trade monitoring network, and the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF). The project is implemented in collaboration with, and through policy guidance from, the EAC Secretariat and the Lake Victoria Basin Commission (LVBC).