New website with key information on combating wildlife and timber trafficking in the Andean-Amazonian countries is available to the public

New website with key information on combating wildlife and timber trafficking in the Andean-Amazonian countries is available to the public

January 20, 2022 09:37

The Alliance for Wildlife and Forests has developed a digital platform that shares activities, advances, and outcomes about this regional action to combat wildlife and timber trafficking in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Brasil.

A new website that shares regional information about the actions that are being implemented in the Andean-Amazonian countries to combat the trafficking of wild fauna and the illegal trade in wood, is now online, with public access.

 

The digital platform is constituted as an information center on all the processes that have been carried out since 2019, within the framework of the Alliance for the Wild Fauna and the Woods, a regional action financed by the European Union and implemented by the Society for the Natural Conservation (WCS- by its acronym in English) and the World Natural Fund (WWF- by its acronym in English).

 

The site preserves and shares up-to-date information and the historical memory of activities, products and results of the Alliance in the region, and at the same time, provides information resources on the factors associated with the trafficking of wild fauna and the illegal trade of wood in them countries where the Alliance is implemented.

 

It should be noted that this platform emerges as an alternative to the urgent need to meet one of the main challenges to combat wildlife trafficking and illegal timber trade in the Andes-Amazon region, which is associated with the lack of information about it. scope, dynamics and structure of the chains of illegal supply of wood and wild fauna, as a result of the process a series of studies, diagnoses and reports have been prepared that will be available in this information repository.

 

These resources comprise news, infographics, audiovisuals, campaigns, publications, studies, diagnoses and reports, which are oriented to authorities that must guarantee the control and compliance of the law, civil society organizations, academia, the private sector, The media, communities and digital users, among other audiences, have access to key information on the dynamics of these issues that exist in one of the most biodiverse regions on the planet.

 

Data of interest:

  • In Ecuador, wildlife trafficking is mainly aimed at the illegal pet market and for the consumption of their meat or other by-products.
  • In Colombia, the trafficking of Amazon turtles (lives and their huevos) is one of the most representative cases. In the period 2010 – 2018, 9,904 individuals of terecay turtles (Podocnemis unifilis) and 736 of charapa turtles (Podocnemis expansa) were decomposed.
  • In Bolivia, the most emblematic case is the trafficking of jaguar (Panthera onca) parts, mainly fangs, to Asian markets. Between 2010 and 2020, 673 jaguar fangs were decommissioned in Bolivia (with events in China), representing the death of at least 168 jaguars.
  • In Ecuador, 21% of the establishments that transform wood are illegal, and it is decided that they operate without any type of permission and do not have a mobility guide generated by them.
  • In Peru, the illegal tally is between 40 and 50% with respect to its production and generates large economic losses.
  • In Bolivia, 50% of the wood is illegal. In addition, this country occupies the 4th place worldwide and the 2nd in Latin America, in loss of primary forests, according to Global Forest Watch.
  • In Colombia, at least 47% of the wood sold in the country is illegal, according to data from the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development.
  • The 10% of deforestation in Colombia is due to the unsustainable tally, according to data from the Instituto de Hidrología, Meteorología and Estudios Ambientales (Ideam). However, the problem goes much further there, because the illegal splint in the soil contributes to forest loss, it is also the main cause of the degradation of the forests.

This and other information is available at: https://alianzafaunaybosques.org/

About the Alliance for Wildlife and Forests


The Alliance for Wildlife and Forests is a regional action promoted by the European Union and implemented by WCS and WWF that seeks to combat wildlife and timber trafficking, through the commitment of civil society in strengthening the application of the law and cooperation with and between the authorities of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and tri-border areas with Brazil. 


For media contact:


Dora Arevalo. Senior Communications Specialist – AAO Wildlife Anti-Trafficking Program. wcs. darevalo@wcs.org +(57) 3164783045.

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