Greenhood Nepal successfully completed Nepal’s first needs assessment of enforcement officials involved in combatting illegal wildlife trade. 73 enforcement officials from those assigned at check posts along the Kathmandu-Rasuwagadhi and Kathmandu-Kodari routes, as well as representatives of key stakeholder agencies, were interviewed. We successfully gathered insights from all the major enforcement agencies including Nepal Police, Armed Police Force, Nepal Army, Customs, Quarantine, Division Forest Office, and Protected Area Office. This assessment will provide valuable data on the challenges that enforcement officials face and the needs in strengthening IWT control measures in Nepal.

This is part of the project ‘detectWILD: Identification tools to strengthen Nepal’s wildlife enforcement’ supported by the Illegal Wildlife Challenge Fund (IWTCF), UKAID.

Photo: Project team member S. Khadka is interacting with Nepal Police to discuss our Species Identification Guide and the identification of the most traded wildlife species in Nepal. Image by Sabina Shakya/Greenhood Nepal