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Tracking the Trade: Vietnam's Illegal Wildlife Business

This study provides data on the logistics, scope and economics of the illegal trade in wildlife in Vietnam. It analyses the main reasons for the rapid growth in this trade and highlights key failures in the country's attempts to control it.
Nguyen Van Song
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Wildlife inspector Page 1

, 2012
General brochure about wildlife inspection as a career. Wildlife inspectors of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service are the front-line defense against the illegal wildlife trade, a criminal enterprise that threatens species worldwide.

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Screwworm reemergence, illegal cattle movements, and emerging risks to wildlife and protected areas in Mesoamerica

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Lucy Keatts, Luis Guerra, Jeremy Radachowsky, Jorge Rojas‐Jiménez, Rony Garcia‐Anleu, Jonathan Pérez‐Flores, Chris Walzer, Diego Montecino‐Latorre   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Remaking State Power Through a Paraquat Ban in Malaysia

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the role of the state in its ability to enact environmental regulations. Specifically, this study investigates how Malaysian state actors changed, shifted and betrayed various, oftentimes competing interests to ban paraquat, an acutely toxic herbicide.
Caitlyn Sears
wiley   +1 more source

A framework for investigating illegal wildlife trade on social media with machine learning. [PDF]

Conserv Biol, 2019
Di Minin E, Fink C, Hiippala T, Tenkanen H.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Specialized Committees of International Organizations an Important Source of Organizational Autonomy

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Assigning the preparation of decisions to specialized committees composed of member state representatives is a widespread response to the ‘governor's dilemma’, that is, the tension between competence and control, in international organizations (IOs). We theorize a causal mechanism referring to self‐selection and agenda‐setting effects and show
Michael Giesen, Thomas Gehring, Simon Linder, Thomas Rixen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Discrimination of ivory from extant and extinct elephant species using Raman spectroscopy: A potential non-destructive technique for combating illegal wildlife trade. [PDF]

PLoS One
Shepherd RF, Lister AM, Roberts AM, Taylor AM, Kerns JG.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Novel detection of provenance in the illegal wildlife trade using elemental data. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2018
Brandis KJ, Meagher PJB, Tong LJ, Shaw M, Mazumder D, Gadd P, Ramp D.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Chain Reactions: How Businesses Plan to Respond to the EU Deforestation Regulation in Brazil, the Congo Basin, and Europe

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 2023 European Union Regulation on Deforestation‐free Products (EUDR) is a transnational regulation aimed at addressing forest loss along the value chains of forest‐risk commodities. Grounding our analysis in new institutional theory with distinct behavioral drivers explaining actor behavior, and using qualitative methods, we draw on the ...
Mathias Cramm, Rafaella Ferraz Ziegert, Laila Berning, Hassina Uwiringiyimana, Dario Schulz, Abubakar Shidiki, Herman Zanguim, Sven Wunder, Jan Börner, Claudia Azevedo‐Ramos, Yitagesu Tekle Tegegne, Metodi Sotirov   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wildlife inspector cover

, 2012
General brochure about wildlife inspection as a career. Wildlife inspectors of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service are the front-line defense against the illegal wildlife trade, a criminal enterprise that threatens species worldwide.

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