Locate your conservation challenge and follow three steps to understand forms of corruption that impact conservation outcomes, analyze your situation, and identify programming approaches that could improve results.
Corruption undermines real and rapid progress across a range of conservation and natural resource management priorities. The topic areas below organize information to help users navigate the issues and identify the most relevant resources, including current research, evidence, and guidance on core topics, case studies, expert insights, and practical tools.
Understand the impact of corruption on community-based conservation efforts and Identify anti-corruption approaches to support inclusive conservation objectives.
Understand how illicit financial flows and associated corruption facilitate environmental harms and explore ways that conservation programming can address this challenge.
Explore ways that corruption can affect investigative and law enforcement strategies in conservation and options for addressing these risks.
Integrate transparency, accountability, and civic participation into conservation work.
Learn more about assessing the threats that corruption may pose to conservation objectives and identify responses that are appropriate to a specific context.
Identify how attitudes and social norms can drive corrupt behaviors and learn how change can be encouraged.
Understand the corruption risks along forest, fishery, and wildlife supply chains, and the strengths and limitations of various anti-corruption approaches to address these risks.
Resources will be added as new material becomes available. Check back often for updates.
Image attribution: © naturepl.com / Jen Guyton / WWF; © Brian J. Skerry / National Geographic Stock / WWF; © Georgina Goodwin / Shoot The Earth / WWF-UK; © Hkun Lat / WWF-Aus