Qatar Airways launches wildlife training programme

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The training aims to educate airline employees, security and Customs staff at Hamad International Airport (HIA) with the effects of wildlife crime, the common routes and methods used to smuggle wildlife, and how to report and respond to illegal activity.

Illegal trade in wild animals and animal products is worth an estimated US$23 billion a year and is one of the largest threats to the survival of some of the world’s most endangered species.

In 2017 Qatar Airways joined the USAID ROUTES Partnership comprised of private sector representatives, NGOs and government agencies working together to combat wildlife crime across transportation networks. The airline says it has been instrumental in the development of the training and awareness campaign.

Between 2009 and 2014 Tanzania lost 60 percent of its elephants with numbers collapsing from 109,000 to 43,000. The Selous Game Reserve, a World Heritage site, has lost almost 90 percent of its elephants over the last 40 years with only 15,217 estimated to be alive at the end of 2014.

In January last year, China officially closed its domestic ivory market, a move that is augmenting Tanzania’s efforts to end the poaching crisis. According to WWF Practice Leader Dr. Margaret Kinnaird, the organisation is working in partnership with governments, international law enforcement agencies, businesses, other conservation NGOs and international organizations in order to drive change at the scale needed to stamp out the illegal trade in ivory.

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