Analyzing Donor Funding Towards the Illegal Wildlife Trade
The Global Wildlife Program promotes integrated approaches among the international donor community to tackle illegal wildlife trade. GWP hosts regular meetings and has published several documents that contribute to better understanding and coordination between donors and maximizes efforts against illegal wildlife trade.
Most recently, in 2025, the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ published the following earlier reviews in and .
The report summarizes the status of international donor funding in combating illegal wildlife trade from January 2010¨CJune 2023. It assesses international donor funding in Africa, Asia, and¡ªfor the first time¡ªLatin America and the Caribbean, as well as cross-regional and global investment. Since 2010, 73 international donors have invested over $3.63 billion in combating illegal wildlife trade, the equivalent of an annual average of $269 million.
The three analyses provide information on geographic and thematic funding flows, and in its second edition this effort also included a deep dive into some of the projects funded by the donor community and the lessons learned over the course of the projects. To view the case studies that have documented these best practices, check out this with filtering by category, including donor type, intervention criteria, and country.
In June 2024, was published to help fill a knowledge gap on national coordination mechanisms for illegal wildlife trade. This guidance note shares experiences and case studies on strengthening national-level donor and development partner coordination and presents a diversity of mechanisms to combat illegal wildlife trade.
Donor Meetings
ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Group organizes quarterly donor meetings as a collaborative platform for individual international donors to share updates on their portfolios and exchange insights and lessons. These meetings aim to foster synergies and enhance the effectiveness of funding to counter wildlife trafficking.
Donor Coordination in Action
Through these vivid and interactive "story maps" you can explore a few of our ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Group and GEF-funded projects.
This case study is about a five-year ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Group and GEF-funded MozBio project that addresses some of the most pressing challenges to conservation areas in Mozambique, which cover 25 percent of the country.
This case study is on the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Group and GEF-funded $38.83 million project to help strengthen management of protected areas, wildlife law enforcement, and environmental protection systems. LENS2 aims to improve the capacity and coordination between public institutions, civil society, and concerned communities to manage protected areas and enforce wildlife laws.
