The National Wildlife Crime Coordination Task Force held its first quarterly coordination meeting of 2025 in March, hosted by the Secretariat at the Uganda Wildlife Authority in Kampala. Focal persons from across the member institutions attended.
The meeting reviewed the status of active cases and prosecutions arising from joint operations, received a briefing from the Financial Intelligence Authority on illicit financial flows linked to wildlife trafficking, and assessed progress on resolutions from previous meetings — the tenth such quarterly meeting since the Task Force's inauguration in February 2020.
Priorities agreed for the year include sustained enforcement attention on Bugoma Central Forest Reserve, continued strengthening of border-post detection at Malaba, Busia, Rwakhaka and Mpondwe, and preparations for further regional awareness workshops building on the nine already delivered.
The Task Force reiterated its call to the public: report wildlife and forest crime through the toll-free hotline or the online reporting channel — reports can be made anonymously and tracked with a reference code.
