Over the last decade, UNU has been developing the Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System (WEMS), a transboundary information sharing platform that collects and compiles data at the regional level with emphasis on grass root level capacity development. Through a combination of information sharing, capacity development and research, UNU-IAS, together with partner organizations and institutes, is further developing WEMS to provide a mechanism for dealing with wildlife enforcement on a practical level and a governmental level, while also providing data to help understand the linkages between land use, habitat degradation, wildlife conservation and strategies for implementing environmental multilateral agreements.