Community Organizations
Grace Farms Organizes Training Workshop in Africa to Combat Wildlife Trafficking
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Grace Farms Foundation (GFF) in collaboration with the Lusaka Agreement Task Force (LATF) and Uganda Wildlife Authority convened a three-day multi-agency workshop in Uganda this week, to train local law enforcement to combat wildlife trafficking. — an announcement from Grace Farms Foundation
During the workshop, members of the Tanzania National Anti-poaching Task Force spoke about Tanzania’s success story in combating poaching and wildlife trafficking and shared valuable lessons with the newly created National Task Force on wildlife crime in Uganda. Participants included 30 key representatives and law enforcement officers from the National Task Force on Wildlife Crime in Uganda; LATF; Robert Mande, chairman of the National Anti-poaching Task Force of the United Republic of Tanzania; and GFF. The workshop is the latest in a series convened by GFF locally and globally to provide expert training to officials with the goal of dismantling transnational organized crime syndicates and combat poaching and illegal trade in wildlife. Multi-agency training sessions in 2019 and 2020 have engaged a number of member countries of the African Union, including Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.