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Where to Start: Building Anti-Corruption into Conservation

To safeguard a future for nature and people, it's essential to consider the drivers and facilitators of corruption that may undermine results and scale anti-corruption in conservation work.

Are you concerned that systemic corruption is impacting your conservation goals? Does corruption seem insurmountable and you don’t know where to start? Select your area of work from the menu below to see how a corruption-smart lens could inform your programming.

A herd of African savanna elephant roam around a waterhole under a low, orange sun in the Nyae Nyae Conservancy, Namibia.

© WWF-US/Gareth Bentley

Wildlife trafficking

Northern bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) in tuna ranching company's (Ecolo Fish) cages, being fattened for the sushi market, Mediterranean Sea, Spain.

© Brian J. Skerry / National Geographic Stock / WWF

Illegal, unreported & unregulated fishing

Illegal logging for paper industry and forest clearing for Palm oil plantation. TESSO NILO Plantation Riau, Sumatra, Indonesia

© Alain Compost / WWF

Illegal logging & associated trade

An aerial view of the dark blue Jaturana River winding through the lush, green Amazon Rainforest

© Andre Dib

Protected areas & natural resource governance

Rose Msofu, the Ibumila conservation group chair, works in the field with other women

© Lillian Mkusa

Community-based conservation

Cargo containers stacked at a seaport

© Edward Parker / WWF

Sustainable supply chains

An icy blue glacier with chunks of ice in the water and blue skies with white clouds.

© Global Warming Images / WWF

Climate crisis

Ground up to canopy view of tree

Seeking advisors and partners?

Strengthen alliances to counter environmental corruption

Connect with anti-corruption experts and others in the conservation community who could be strong partners or advisors by joining a working group in the Countering Environmental Corruption Practitioners Forum.

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© Luis Barreto / WWF-UK

This content is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents are the responsibility of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID, the United States Government, or individual TNRC consortium members.