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Studies of Organized Crime, 2016
AbstractThe illegal wildlife trade is a growing problem driven by a number of factors (e.g. subsistence, alternative medicine, accessories, the pet trade). High demand for illicit wildlife products is threatening the existence of many of the most-endangered species.
Daan van Uhm
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AbstractThe illegal wildlife trade is a growing problem driven by a number of factors (e.g. subsistence, alternative medicine, accessories, the pet trade). High demand for illicit wildlife products is threatening the existence of many of the most-endangered species.
Daan van Uhm
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Summarizing the Evidence on the International Trade in Illegal Wildlife [PDF]
EcoHealth, 2010 The global trade in illegal wildlife is a multi-billion dollar industry that threatens biodiversity and acts as a potential avenue for invasive species and disease spread. Despite the broad-sweeping implications of illegal wildlife sales, scientists have yet to describe the scope and scale of the trade.
Katherine F Smith
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Establishing Trust in the Illegal Wildlife Trade in China
Asian Journal of Criminology, 2019 This study focusses on the role of trust in the illegal distribution of protected wildlife in China. This research attempts to contribute to the literature by disentangling the establishment of trust within the illegal wildlife trade based on ...
Daan van Uhm +2 more
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Illegal Wildlife Trade and the Persistence of “Plant Blindness” [PDF]
Plants People Planet, 2019 Societal Impact StatementA wide variety of plant species are threatened by illegal wildlife trade (IWT), and yet plants receive scant attention in IWT policy and research, a matter of pressing global concern. This review examines how “plant blindness” manifests within policy and research on IWT, with serious and detrimental effects for biodiversity ...
Jacob Phelps +2 more
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Infectious Diseases and the Illegal Wildlife Trade
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2008We provide a compilation of pathogens directly associated with illegally traded wildlife. We find that these pathogens span the gamut of taxonomic origins, affect most vertebrate taxa, and can have negative consequences for human and animal health and the global economy.
Andrés, Gómez, A Alonso, Aguirre
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Illegal Wildlife Trade in the Mekong
2022Abstract This chapter examines the illegal wildlife trade (IWT) in the Mekong, with particular attention to how political economic factors and legal structures shape actors’ interests and incentives. The current literature on wildlife trafficking mainly attributes wildlife protection failures to weak enforcement. However, this literature
Nillasithanukroh, Songkhun +3 more
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Global Crime, 2009 The Russian Federation is a source of wildlife and wildlife products that fuel the vast, and often overlooked, illegal wildlife trade that takes place around the globe.
Tanya Wyatt
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2019
This chapter contextualizes the development of green criminology and the study of environmental crime. In specific, it examines the stages of the illegal wildlife trade: (1) poaching, (2) smuggling, (3) processing, and (4) online distribution.
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This chapter contextualizes the development of green criminology and the study of environmental crime. In specific, it examines the stages of the illegal wildlife trade: (1) poaching, (2) smuggling, (3) processing, and (4) online distribution.
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Illegal wildlife trade: Look to the elephants
Science, 2016The expansion of global illegal trafficking and its cooption by sophisticated criminal syndicates have accelerated the overharvesting of species ([ 1 ][1]). Although we lack understanding of the illegal trade of most species, we have gained insight into elephant ivory trafficking through a ...
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