Project
Summary: Wildlife 1 is a dedicated resource on wildlife trade and conservation
in Asia. Bringing you the latest from the frontline in the battle for conservation
and protection of Asia's remaining wildlife and habitats.
Wildlife
1 is a dedicated resource on wildlife trade and conservation in
Asia. Bringing you the latest from the frontline in the battle
for conservation and protection of Asia's remaining wildlife and
habitats. With intelligence, news updates and cutting edge photography
from across the region.
Wildlife is in crisis all over the world,
especially Asia, with many animal and plant species driven closer
to extinction every day. Less than twelve percent of the earth
has been set aside for wildlife in protected areas and there is
constant pressure from development and commercial activities to
reduce these areas even further. Poaching and the black market
trade in wildlife has become a massive, multi-billion dollar business,
with trafficking routes extending from remote national parks and
reserves, where animals are trapped and killed, to major urban
centres where they are sold and consumed.
Wildlife
1 seeks to greatly increase public and political awareness of
the trade and depletion of Asian wildlife and habitats and develop
an effective regional monitoring and reporting network through
public engagement. Education and transparency are keys to changing
public and political attitudes, so that individuals and communities
can earn their livelihoods without destroying finite resources.
Accordingly, Wildlife 1 will increase awareness of the depletion
of Asian wildlife from poaching and trading.
Through powerful photography and factual
reportage, Wildlife 1 will:
document wildlife use, extraction, and
trade;
act as a clearinghouse for additional
relevant material and as a medium for public engagement;
expand the wildlife information base
of national institutions and NGO's;
advocate solutions to the complex social,
economic and security issues involved in the international trade
in wildlife;
influence government policy on wildlife
and the environment, and promote the enforcement of conservation
policy;
increase support for existing conservation
programs;
through the website www.wildlife1.org,
provide an on-line forum for public interaction and the reporting
of wildlife crime and other relevant information on wildlife
trade and use in the region.
Wildlife
1 is a dedicated resource on wildlife trade and conservation in
Asia. Bringing you the latest from the frontline in the battle
for conservation and protection of Asia's remaining wildlife and
habitats. With intelligence, news updates and cutting edge photography
from across the region.
Wildlife
1 seeks to greatly increase public and political awareness of
the trade and depletion of Asian wildlife and habitats and develop
an effective regional monitoring and reporting network through
public engagement. Education and transparency are keys to changing
public and political attitudes, so that individuals and communities
can earn their livelihoods without destroying finite resources.
Accordingly, Wildlife 1 will increase awareness of the depletion
of Asian wildlife from poaching and trading. 
