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Written question asked by Lord Black of Brentwood (Conservative) on Thursday, 17 December 2015, in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 5 January 2016. It was answered by Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Conservative) on Monday, 4 January 2016 on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Tigers: Conservation

Question

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what funding they are making available under the UK Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund to combat the illegal tiger trade and tiger farming.

Answer

In December 2013, Defra and the Department for International Development announced a £10 million fund over the period from 2014/15 to 2017/18 to help developing countries tackle the illegal wildlife trade, to be administered by Defra. In March 2015, the Secretary of State for International Development announced that an additional £3 million would be made available for this purpose. Most of this funding is distributed through the Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund.


Nineteen successful projects from the first round of the UK Government’s Challenge Fund were announced in December 2014. These included a number of projects that aimed to reduce the demand for illegal wildlife products in Asia, build capacity and strengthen law enforcement to combat wildlife trafficking. Challenge Funding directly benefitting tigers includes a £210,000 contribution towards a project strengthening institutional frameworks to combat wildlife trafficking in Indonesia, which is also supporting local communities mitigate human-tiger conflict. The Fund has also contributed over £59,000 to a project producing educational children’s videos in Vietnam, one of which is on tigers, to help reduce the demand for illegal wildlife products.


A second round of the Challenge Fund opened in August 2015. We expect to announce the successful projects from the second round early this year.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
HL4720
Session
2015-16
Subjects
Conservation Finance Tigers
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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