From Risk to Resilience by Securing Wildlife Stockpiles in Liberia, Sierra Leone

Apr 16, 2025 | Charles Henson
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The authors recently traveled to Sierra Leone and Liberia as part of an Elephant Protection Initiative Foundation (EPIF) project to help improve the security of wildlife products in government custody and thereby support the conservation of elephants and other species. Funded by the UK government through its Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund, the project aims to “Secure Wildlife Product Stockpiles in five West African countries”, including Burkina Faso, Guinea and Togo.

The project’s objectives are to help all five countries strengthen wildlife product storerooms and improve management procedures, to implement the EPIF Stockpile Management System (SMS) digital inventory tool, and to work with governments to consider the long-term fate of illegal wildlife trade products through policy review. The EPIF already has a decade of experience delivering similar projects in ten other EPI member states.