Illicit Wildlife Trade A Global Review

Author : Babajide Baaniya
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783668663909

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Illicit Wildlife Trade. A Global Review by Babajide Baaniya Pdf

Academic Paper from the year 2017 in the subject Business economics - Trade and Distribution, grade: 9.0, Osun State University, language: English, abstract: Illicit Wildlife Trade refers to the commerce of products that are derived from non-domesticated animals or plants usually extracted from their natural environment or raised under control conditions. “lllicit wildlife trafficking” describes any environment-related crime that involves the illegal trade, smuggling, poaching, capture or collection of endangered species, protected wildlife (including animals and plants that are subject to harvest quotas and regulated by permits), derivatives or products thereof. Poaching has traditionally been defined as the illegal hunting or capturing of wild animals, usually associated with land use rights. And Game cropping is defined as the taking of animals from a wild herd in numbers that will not endanger the viability of the wild population Most of the trade in wildlife is legal and provides much-needed revenue to range areas or source countries, many of which are located in developing countries or countries with economies in transition. However, according to Zimmerman, “The black market in illegal wildlife is now the second largest in the world—ranking only behind the trade in illegal drugs.” Therefore, the illegal trade, according to Cook et al, not only threatens survival and conservation of endangered species but also offers high rewards and low risks to those involved.

Author : Jacqueline L. Schneider
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9798216146711

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Sold into Extinction by Jacqueline L. Schneider Pdf

This revealing and compelling title analyzes the illegal trade in endangered species from a criminological viewpoint and presents specific crime reduction techniques that could help save thousands of species from extinction. The illegal trade in endangered species is a worldwide problem that involves not only animals but also plants, and it contributes to troubling factors such as organized crime as well as the further decline of the earth's natural climate. This book explores the extensive endangered species illegal market, spotlighting the worldwide nature and extent of the problem, and presents revealing case studies of terrestrial, marine, plant, and avian species. Sold into Extinction: The Global Trade in Endangered Species focuses attention on the plight of endangered wild flora and fauna as well as the specific illegal acts committed against them that have long and largely been ignored by criminology. The author provides a fresh look at the topic by presenting it within a crime reduction framework, an approach rarely taken by those with traditional criminological or conservation backgrounds, demonstrating how an innovative strategy to reduce illegal market activities can simultaneously further the conservation of these endangered species. International treaties, national and domestic laws, and international policing efforts pertaining to crimes involving endangered species are also examined.

Author : United Nations Publications
Publisher : UN
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9211483492

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World Wildlife Crime Report 2020 by United Nations Publications Pdf

The report presents the latest assessment of global trends in wildlife crime. It includes discussions on illicit rosewood, ivory, rhino horn, pangolin scales, live reptiles, tigers and other big cats, and European eel. The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic has highlighted that wildlife crime is a threat not only to the environment and biodiversity, but also to human health, economic development and security. Zoonotic diseases - those caused by pathogens that spread from animals to humans - represent up to 75% of all emerging infectious diseases. Trafficked wild species and the resulting products offered for human consumption, by definition, escape any hygiene or sanitary control, and therefore pose even greater risks of infection.

Author : Daan P. van Uhm
Publisher : Springer
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319421292

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The Illegal Wildlife Trade by Daan P. van Uhm Pdf

In this book the author examines the illegal wildlife trade from multiple perspectives: the historical context, the impact on the environment, the scope of the problem internationally, the sociocultural demand for illegal products, the legal efforts to combat it, and several case studies from inside the trade. The illegal wildlife trade has become a global criminal enterprise, following in the footsteps of drugs and weapons. Beyond the environmental impact, financial profits from the illegal wildlife trade often fund organized crime groups and violent gangs that threaten public safety and security in myriad ways. This innovative volume covers several key questions surrounding the wildlife trade: why is there a demand for illegal wildlife products, which actors are involved in the trade, how is the business organized, and what are the harmful consequences. The author performed ethnographic fieldwork in three key markets: Russia, Morocco, and China, and has constructed a detailed picture of how the wildlife trade operates in these areas. Conversations with informants directly involved in the illegal business ensure unique insights into this lively black market. In the course of his journey the author follows the route of the illegal wildlife trade from poor poaching areas to rich business districts where corrupt officials, legally registered companies, wildlife farms and sophisticated criminal organizations all have a share. A fascinating look inside the world of poachers, smugglers and traders.

Author : Vanda Felbab Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780190911706

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The Extinction Market by Vanda Felbab Brown Pdf

The planet is currently experiencing alarming levels of species loss caused in large part by intensified poaching and wildlife trafficking driven by expanding demand, for medicines, for food, and for trophies. Affecting many more species than just the iconic elephants, rhinos, and tigers, the rate of extinction is now as much as 1000 times the historical average and the worst since the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago. In addition to causing irretrievable biodiversity loss, wildlife trafficking also poses serious threats to public health, potentially triggering a global pandemic. The Extinction Market explores the causes, means, and consequences of poaching and wildlife trafficking, with a view to finding ways of suppressing them. Vanda Felbab-Brown travelled to the markets of Latin America, South and South East Asia, and eastern and southern Africa, to evaluate the effectiveness of various tools, including bans on legal trade, law enforcement, and interdiction; allowing legal supply from hunting or farming; alternative livelihoods; anti- money-laundering efforts; and demand reduction strategies. This is an urgent book offering meaningful solutions to one of the world's most pressing crises.

Author : Katherine Lawson,Alex Vines,Royal Institute of International Affairs,Royal Institute of International Affairs Staff
Publisher : Chatham House Publishers
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Poaching
ISBN : 1784130044

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Global Impacts of the Illegal Wildlife Trade by Katherine Lawson,Alex Vines,Royal Institute of International Affairs,Royal Institute of International Affairs Staff Pdf

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264967120

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Illicit Trade The Illegal Wildlife Trade in Southeast Asia Institutional Capacities in Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam by OECD Pdf

Wildlife crime poses a serious and irrefutable risk to global biodiversity and is a driver of the current global extinction crisis. Southeast Asia accounts for up to a quarter of global demand for illegal wildlife products, and is also both a source and transit region for this transnational trade. This report examines the governance frameworks for countering illegal wildlife trade in Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam. After assessing the effectiveness of several responses to wildlife crime in these countries, the report provides recommendations for strengthening the capacities of the institutions involved and improving strategies to counter illegal wildlife trade.

Author : Rachel Love Nuwer
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780306825514

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Poached by Rachel Love Nuwer Pdf

An intrepid investigation of the criminal world of wildlife trafficking--the poachers, the traders, and the customers--and of those fighting against it Journalist Rachel Nuwer plunges the reader into the underground of global wildlife trafficking, a topic she has been investigating for nearly a decade. Our insatiable demand for animals -- for jewelry, pets, medicine, meat, trophies, and fur -- is driving a worldwide poaching epidemic, threatening the continued existence of countless species. Illegal wildlife trade now ranks among the largest contraband industries in the world, yet compared to drug, arms, or human trafficking, the wildlife crisis has received scant attention and support, leaving it up to passionate individuals fighting on the ground to try to ensure that elephants, tigers, rhinos, and more are still around for future generations. As Reefer Madness (Schlosser) took us into the drug market, or Susan Orlean descended into the swampy obsessions of TheOrchid Thief, Nuwer--an award-winning science journalist with a background in ecology--takes readers on a narrative journey to the front lines of the trade: to killing fields in Africa, traditional medicine black markets in China, and wild meat restaurants in Vietnam. Through exhaustive first-hand reporting that took her to ten countries, Nuwer explores the forces currently driving demand for animals and their parts; the toll that demand is extracting on species across the planet; and the conservationists, rangers, and activists who believe it is not too late to stop the impending extinctions. More than a depressing list of statistics, Poached is the story of the people who believe this is a battle that can be won, that our animals are not beyond salvation.

Author : OECD
Publisher : Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Developing Countries
ISBN : 9264251839

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Illicit Trade by OECD Pdf

This report assesses the magnitude, flows and drivers of illicit trade and the illegal economy including: narcotics, human trafficking, wildlife, sports betting, counterfeit medicines, alcohol and tobacco. The negative socio-economic impacts that these markets have in consumer countries are as worrisome as the goverance gaps that are exploited in source countries. This report examines each illicit sector in terms of the geographic sources, destinations and key trade routes, the current trend of infiltration by organized crime networks, and good practices or future policy solutions with which to combat illicit trade within the various sectors.

Author : United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210580557

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World Wildlife Crime Report 2016 by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Pdf

The trafficking of wildlife is increasingly recognized as both a specialized area of organized crime and a significant threat to many plant and animal species. The World Wildlife Crime Report 2016 takes stock of the present wildlife crime situation with a focus on illicit trafficking of specific protected species of wild fauna and flora, and provides a broad assessment of the nature and extent of the problem at the global level. It includes a quantitative market assessment and a series of in-depth illicit trade case studies.

Author : Ragnhild Aslaug Sollund
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317008583

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The Crimes of Wildlife Trafficking by Ragnhild Aslaug Sollund Pdf

This book examines trade and trafficking in endangered animal species and how the trade increasingly puts large numbers of nonhuman species at risk. Focusing on illegal trafficking, the book also discusses the harmful aspects of the trade and trafficking which is taking place in concordance with laws and regulations. Drawing on the findings of empirical research from Norway and Colombia, the study discusses how this global, transnational trend is addressed, and features of the trade and the ways in which it is controlled in the two case study locations. It also explores the motives driving the trade, and the consequences in terms of animal abuse and environmental harm. The book discusses whether internationally agreed measures, such as international conventions, actually help prevent the trade. Possible ways to address the harms of wildlife trade are considered, including a total ban. The work draws on a green criminology and eco feminist theoretical framework to provide a broad perspective on concepts such as harm, animal rights, species justice and speciesism.

Author : Liana Sun Wyler,Pervase Sheikh
Publisher : Scholar's Choice
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1296051374

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International Illegal Trade in Wildlife by Liana Sun Wyler,Pervase Sheikh Pdf

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Author : Liana Sun Wyler,Pervaze A. Sheikh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
ISBN : UOM:39076002812746

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International Illegal Trade in Wildlife by Liana Sun Wyler,Pervaze A. Sheikh Pdf

Background -- Threats -- U.S. policy -- Issues for Congress -- Appendix A. Selected laws related to the wildlife trade -- Appendix B. Additional international efforts to combat wildlife crime.

Author : Viktor T. Grante
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
ISBN : 1606922807

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Illegal Trade in Wildlife by Viktor T. Grante Pdf

Global trade in illegal wildlife is a growing illicit economy, estimated to be worth at least $5 billion and potentially in excess of $20 billion annually. The of the most lucrative illicit wildlife commodities include tiger parts, caviar, elephant ivory, rhino horn, and exotic birds and reptiles. Demand for illegally obtained wildlife is ubiquitous, and some suspect that illicit demand is growing. This book presents important information defining the issues and pointing to solutions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9264418229

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The Illegal Wildlife Trade in Southeast Asia by Anonim Pdf