Publication: Bytes beyond Borders: Strengthening Transboundary Information Sharing on Wildlife Crime through the Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System (WEMS) Initiative published by UNU-IAS (Feb 2013)

Bytes beyond Borders: Strengthening Transboundary Information Sharing on Wildlife Crime through the Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System (WEMS) Initiative

By Remi Chandran, Ng S.T. Chong, Christopher N.H. Doll, Lisa Y. Lee, Manu V. Mathai, Khoi Nguyen and Govindan Parayil Over the last decade, UNU has been developing the Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System (WEMS), a transboundary information sharing platform that collects and compiles data at the regional level with emphasis on grass root level capacity development. Through a combination of information sharing, capacity development and research, UNU-IAS, together with partner organizations and institutes, is further developing WEMS to provide a mechanism for dealing with wildlife enforcement on a practical level and a governmental level, while also providing data to help understand the linkages between land use, habitat degradation, wildlife conservation and strategies for implementing environmental multilateral agreements. February 2013, 8 pages  Download policy brief as a .pdf file (1.76 MB) For more information: http://www.ias.unu.edu/sub_page.aspx?catID=111&ddlID=169