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<p>The United Kingdom is taking steps to help protect endangered animals and plants
from poaching and illegal trade to benefit wildlife, local communities and the economy,
and protect global security.</p><p> </p><p>HMG has committed over £46 million between
2014 and 2022 on work to directly counter illegal wildlife trade (IWT), including
through the Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund. Our actions include: training border
force agents and building capacity through the British military to train rangers and
disrupt poaching in targeted African countries; developing behaviour change campaigns
to discourage purchases of wildlife products; supporting legislative reform to increase
penalties and conviction rates for wildlife crime; and helping communities to protect
the wildlife they rely on for their livelihoods.</p><p> </p><p>We are also contributing
£250 million to the Global Environment Facility between 2018-2022, which includes
the world's biggest fund for tackling IWT, the Global Wildlife Programme (GWP), supporting
IWT projects across 32 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In June this
year, at the Stockholm +50 meeting, Lord Goldsmith announced the UK Government’s pledge
of £330m to the eighth replenishment of the Global Environment Facility (GEF8) covering
the period 2022 – 2026. The GEF8 replenishment delivered a record breaking $5.33bn
with a 46% increase in biodiversity funding. This includes the Wildlife Conservation
for Development programme which will combat Illegal and High-Risk Wildlife Trade through
a supply-chain approach to curbing poaching, disrupting trafficking, and reducing
demand for illegal, unsustainable, and high zoonotic-risk wildlife within and between
countries.</p>
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