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Connections between trades and trafficking in wildlife and drugs [PDF]
Trends in Organized Crime, 2021 AbstractWhilst drug trafficking has been a concern for several decades, wildlife trafficking has only fairly recently garnered international attention. Often media coverage of wildlife trafficking links it to the illegal trade of drugs. This article analyses wildlife and drug trafficking connections of various kinds.
Daan Van Uhm +2 more
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The Links between Human Trafficking and Wildlife Trafficking
This chapter reviews the convergences that occur between human trafficking and illegal wildlife trade according to information and case studies reported in the literature, including academic and gray publications, as well as the authors’ personal knowledge and empirical research in this area.
Michelle Anagnostou, Daan Van Uhm
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Wildlife Trafficking: the illicit trade in wildlife, animal parts, and derivatives [PDF]
, 2020 Wildlife trafficking threatens the existence of many plant and animal species and accelerates the destruction of wildlife, forests, and other natural resources. It contributes to environmental degradation, destroys unique natural habitats, and deprives many countries and their populations of scarce renewable resources.
Gian Ege +2 more
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Extracting and Visualizing Wildlife Trafficking Events from Wildlife Trafficking Reports
2022 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 2022 Experts combating wildlife trafficking manually sift through articles about seizures and arrests, which is time consuming and make identifying trends difficult. We apply natural language processing techniques to automatically extract data from reports published by the Eco Activists for Governance and Law Enforcement (EAGLE).
Kyumin Lee, Renata Konrad
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I. Poaching, Wildlife Trafficking and Human Security [PDF]
Whitehall Papers, 2016 Human security and underdevelopment are increasingly common themes in public debates about the security threat posed by poaching and wildlife trafficking. Most frequently highlighted are the ways in which these activities can exacerbate poverty by stripping local communities of the wildlife that tourists will pay to see.
Duffy, R.V., Humphreys, J.
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Corruption and wildlife trafficking
, 2015 Wildlife trafficking is a growing global concern. It takes place in all regions of the world with those nations with high biodiversity being the source and the consumers of the wildlife as well as transit areas and hubs for smuggled wildlife. It is a significant contributor to biodiversity loss and species extinction.
Wyatt, Tanya, Cao, Anh Ngoc
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Wildlife Trafficking: Causes, Characteristics, and Consequences
, 2020 This chapter examines the causes and characteristics of wildlife trafficking, the demand and supply that fuel this trade, and the various activities that define it, ranging from poaching to consumption. The purpose of this chapter is to outline the causes, characteristics, and criminology of wildlife trafficking.
Schloenhardt, Andreas
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Criminalisation of Wildlife Trafficking
, 2020 Wildlife trafficking threatens the existence of many plant and animal species and accelerates the destruction of wildlife, forests, and other natural resources. It contributes to environmental degradation, destroys unique natural habitats, and deprives many countries and their populations of scarce renewable resources.
Ege, Gian Andrea, Howe, Georgina
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Wildlife trafficking in the Internet age [PDF]
Crime Science, 2014 There is a broad consensus that the Internet has greatly expanded possibilities for traditional transit crimes such as wildlife trafficking. However, the extent to which the Internet is exploited by criminals to carry out these types of activities and the way in which it has changed how these crimes are carried out remains under-investigated.
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Airing out wildlife trafficking
, 2023 Georgia Moloney, Airing out wildlife traffickingWinner - University of Adelaide VYT local programme (2023)
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