The project ‘Building institutional and local capacities to reduce wildlife crime and to enhance protection of iconic wildlife in Malaysia’ is a child project under the World Bank Group-led Global Wildlife Program (GWP) will help to address the following barriers linked to the GWP TOC: (i) shortcomings in the management and financing of conservation areas; (ii) insufficient opportunities for communities to engage in conservation; (iii) lack of expertise and technologies to support enforcement activities; and (iv) ineffective national coordination in IWT. The GEF-supported Project Alternative seeks to remove these barriers through its intervention strategy.

The project’s objective is to enhance the protection of three iconic wildlife species and their habitats in Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak and Sabah. Focusing on Malayan tiger, Bornean orangutan and Bornean banteng (as iconic Malaysian wildlife species), the child project will contribute to improving Malaysia’s capacity to prevent, combat and investigate wildlife crimes.