Search
Search Results
-
Harms and the Illegal Wildlife Trade: Political Ecology, Green Criminology and the European Eel
This paper integrates political ecology and green criminology to examine the critical endangerment of the European eel. Using a harms-based approach,...
-
The illegal trade in European eels: outsourcing, funding, and complex symbiotic-antithetical relationships
Whilst traditionally, the study of the illegal wildlife trade has been focused on species that consider the role of the Western world as a consumer...
-
The role of informal networks in promoting illegal wildlife trade: a qualitative analysis from Uganda
Illegal wildlife trade (IWT) poses a threat to many countries in Africa, Asia, South and Central America. While the role of informal networks in...
-
Nexus Between Illegal Wildlife Trade and Financial Crime: How to Counter It? A Case Study in Southeast Asia
Illegal wildlife trade (IWT) is a serious global problem as a transnational organized crime and leads to financial crime. Southeast Asia is...
-
Chinese organized crime and the illegal wildlife trade: diversification and outsourcing in the Golden Triangle
The illegal wildlife trade has increasingly been linked to organized crime in recent years. In particular, Chinese crime groups seem to be major...
-
The welfare of wildlife: an interdisciplinary analysis of harm in the legal and illegal wildlife trades and possible ways forward
Wildlife trade—both legal and illegal—is an activity that is currently the focus of global attention. Concerns over the loss of biodiversity, partly...
-
The Criminalization of the Trade in Wildlife
In the twentieth century, the damage from unregulated trade in wildlife became transparent as many species became extinct or were on the brink of...
-
In the post-COVID-19 era, is the illegal wildlife trade the most serious form of trafficking?
Despite the immense impact of wildlife trafficking, comparisons of the profits, costs, and seriousness of crime consistently rank wildlife...
-
Mexican organized crime and the illegal trade in totoaba maw
The convergence between wildlife trafficking and other serious crimes has received increasing attention within criminological studies. The present...
-
European illegal puppy trade and organised crime
Organised crime groups’ involvement in illicit markets is a common focus of law enforcement and governments. Drug, weapon, human and wildlife...
-
Crime script analysis of the illegal sales of spiny-tailed lizards on YouTube
The oil derived from the spiny-tailed lizards (STLs) is illegally sold as an alternative medicinal aphrodisiac that is claimed to cure male sexual...
-
National legislative adoption of international wildlife law after treaty ratification
Since the 1970s, the world has witnessed a proliferation of international treaties championing the protection of wildlife. The effectiveness of those...
-
“Missing the Trees for the Forest?” An Analysis of the Harms to European Eels Caused by Their Trafficking and Trade
Wildlife trafficking has generally been studied for its harm to humans, to species of nonhuman animals, and to ecosystems. Such approaches fail to...
-
The Fight Against Wildlife Trafficking
The Fight Against Wildlife Trafficking—The illegal wildlife trade is nestled between law enforcement, conservation/environmental protection, and the...
-
Differentiating criminal networks in the illegal wildlife trade: organized, corporate and disorganized crime
Historically, the poaching of wildlife was portrayed as a small-scale local activity in which only small numbers of wildlife would be smuggled...
-
Connections between trades and trafficking in wildlife and drugs
Whilst drug trafficking has been a concern for several decades, wildlife trafficking has only fairly recently garnered international attention. Often...
-
Reflecting on Wildlife Trafficking
The concluding chapter summarises the complicated nature of wildlife trafficking; from its pervasiveness to its hidden nature; from the supply side...
-
Who Needs the Dark Web? Exploring the Trade in Critically Endangered Plants on eBay
Stemming the illegal trade of endangered species is a critical and very difficult challenge for conservationists and law enforcement. Much effort is...
-
Policing the Environment: The Prosecution of Wildlife and Environmental Crimes
Green criminologist Rob White (2007, 2012) suggests that given the potential for environmental harms to extend far beyond the impact on individual...