WCS Indonesia

WCS operates an active Wildlife Crime Unit inIndonesia. This unit works alongside the Indonesian Forestry Department,Police, and other key stakeholders, focusing on: Improved enforcement of wildlife trade: WCSworks closely with enforcement agencies in key trade locations to strengthenenforcement and reduce the supply of wildlife from illegal or uns... ustainablesources. We facilitate collaboration and information sharing and clarify roles,plus provide a comprehensive package of capacity building initiatives,targeting senior staff and judiciary, and focusing on developing an improvedtactical response. We also seek to improve the feedback systems by whichregional agencies report back to central government counterparts, thusproviding an factual basis for directing policy reform. We also activelyconduct overt and covert investigation of wildlife trade, providing allinformation to enforcement authorities. Inter-agency collaboration & informationsharing: We seek to facilitate closer working relationships between nationaland international wildlife trade enforcement and regulating agencies, based onexisting or new institutions and forums, and focusing on free informationexchange, transparency, and cross-border enforcement issues. Policy review and change: WCS seeks therevision and enactment of national policies and laws that support effective lawenforcement and that ensure wildlife is only legally traded from demonstrablysustainably exploited or captive-bred resources, with full identitypreservation. WCS evaluates its impact against the rate ofloss of biodiversity within Indonesia, using key indicator species representativeof the main typologies of trade to monitor trade volume and economics, and wildpopulation status. Our activities currently focus on key trade ports inSumatra, Java and eastern Indonesia.Read More