UWA staff get online skills to guard wildlife
Tuesday April 20 2021
Tourists visit Queen Elizabeth National Park. Six lions were found dead at Ishasha sector of the park last month. PHOTO /courtesy
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The government is training wildlife law enforcement officers from Uganda Wildlife Authority on mobile forensic investigations to enhance in-house investigation capacity in fighting illegal wildlife trade.
This comes at a time when perpetrators of wildlife crimes are employing online technology to communicate and make transactions, a development that is challenging the existing skills of law enforcers in mitigating the crimes.
The training which is going on in Kampala until April 23, is being done by Israeli digital intelligence firm Cellebrite, with financial support from the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF).