Cambodia law enforcement support (landscape level)

Freeland

Freeland provides capacity building to rangers, protected area managers, border security, and military through the Protected-area Operational and Tactical Enforcement Conservation Training (PROTECT) program that combines assessments, strategy design, and training to implement counter-poaching and counter-illegal logging strategies. This program has training courses for front-line rangers right up to protected area managers, is tailored to each audience and their threats, and has a mentoring element that Freeland refers to as “OJT” (On-the-Job Training). The OJTs can include digital forensics training and analytical support. PROTECT has been accredited by the American Council on Education. Freeland also developed FIST-PROTECT (Field Information Support Tool) with Kestrel Technologies to help rangers and their supervisors track, prevent and record poaching through phones or other hand-held devices that link up to satellites. FIST allows information, orders and requests to be transmitted between the field and command centersin real time through an analytical hub that provides user-friendly and useful analysis.

Freeland developed WildScan, a mobile phone application to facilitate species identification. For Cambodia, it is produced in Khmer, covering Cambodia-based species and is free for the government and public to download and use to record and report sightings of wildlife or wildlife crime.

Panthera

Panthera is surveying Indochinese leopards in two protected areas within the Eastern Plains Landscape in eastern Cambodia. The organization collaborates with WWF Cambodia and the Ministry of Environment to identify areas of high illegal human activity, based on the camera trap data and human sign encountered. Panthera provides input and advice for law enforcement activities, and assists rangers with establishing check-points within the protected areas.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

UNDP is developing a GEF-financed regional project across tiger range states titled “South-South Cooperation for Sustainability of the Global Tiger Recovery Programme” that will be implemented with the Global Tiger Forum. See section below on national level law enforcement support for details.

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)

WCS works in the four main landscapes in Cambodia, supporting protected area management and law enforcement teams including anti-poaching and Counter Wildlife Trafficking (CWT) activities. WCS Cambodia has also established conservation incentive schemes which prohibit hunting by participating community members. WCS has conducted wildlife trade surveys in three of these landscapes to inform the organization’s anti-poaching and CWT strategies.