At TerraNautics, we:
-- Provide site, organizational, and national assessments on the ability to counter wildlife and marine crime.
-- Strengthen resilience to national and transnational threats by providing proven solutions reinforced with innovative technologies and partnerships.
-- Provide materials development, facilitation, mentoring, and training with civil society and the public sector on PA and MPA law enforcement, policing, prosecution, organized crime and governance. TerraNautics supports collaboration between communities, governments, NGOs and local businesses and other relevant stakeholders to mitigate wildlife crime and enhance conservation over the long-term. When it comes to countering crime, TerraNautics delivers a multifaceted approach involving conducting and disseminating assessments, deploying innovative technological and non-tech solutions, building strategic partnerships and facilitating training and capacity building with civil society and the public sector.
Historically, combating wildlife and marine crime has focused primarily on the protection of species and habitat. Today, combating these illicit activities requires strong governance, coordinated national and regional security, innovative strategy development, active community engagement, a well-managed protected area network, and sustainable economic development.
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As many as 35,000 elephants and more than 1,000 rhinos are lost to poaching each year in Africa alone.
Shark finning kills an estimated
100 million
or more sharks globally per year.
Increasing demand for wild animal products has led to an unprecedented surge in illegal wildlife trade.
Wildlife trafficking has become a serious crime run by dangerous syndicates posing increasing threats to local wildlife law enforcement. Over the past 10 years, over 1,000 park rangers have been killed in the line of duty, many of them victims of violence perpetrated by poachers. Wildlife crime harms local communities, diminishing natural resources from community reserves, undermining opportunities for legal sustainable trade and tourism, threatening food systems, weakening local security and economic stability.
