Updates, statements and announcements from the task force.
At Entebbe International Airport, a quiet, four-legged member of the enforcement team is proving hard to fool, detection dogs trained to find ivory, scales and live animals hidden in luggage and cargo.
Not all wildlife crime deals in scales and tusks. A growing trade moves living creatures, parrots, monkeys, snakes, out of Uganda’s wild, and the Task Force is intercepting it.
Reporting wildlife crime takes minutes, can be completely anonymous, and now comes with a tracking code so you can follow your report from Received to Closed.
Away from the seizures and the courtrooms, the Task Force’s real engine is a table, where focal persons from the member agencies meet, share intelligence and plan the next joint operation.
From a 1.3-tonne seizure in Najjanakumbi to worked ivory intercepted at Entebbe, coordinated multi-agency action is squeezing the ivory supply chain through Uganda.
Alarmed by the degradation of one of Uganda’s most important biodiversity and carbon reservoirs, the Task Force has made restoring Bugoma Central Forest Reserve a national priority.
A single 2021 operation recovered 740 kg of pangolin scales. Behind that number lies a quiet catastrophe, and a determined multi-agency effort to stop it.
The NWCCTF convened editors and journalists from the Bunyoro sub-region to strengthen accurate, sustained media coverage of wildlife and forest crime, with the defence of Bugoma Central Forest Reserve at the top of the agenda.
From Kasese to Karamoja and the border posts of Malaba, Busia, Rwakhaka and Mpondwe, how the Task Force is building a human early-warning system against wildlife crime.
