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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...
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Wildlife Trafficking A Deconstruction of the Crime, Victims and Offenders
This book provides a comprehensive, global exploration of the scale, scope, threats, and drivers of wildlife trafficking from a criminological...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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The Fight Against Wildlife Trafficking
The Fight Against Wildlife Trafficking—The illegal wildlife trade is nestled between law enforcement, conservation/environmental protection, and the...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Towards Environmental Restorative Justice in South Africa: How to Understand and Address Wildlife Offences
South Africa is home to a rich diversity of endemic and endangered species of fauna and flora, many of which are subject to wildlife offences....
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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...
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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...
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The Czech Rhino Connection: a Case Study of Vietnamese Wildlife Trafficking Networks’ Operations Across Central Europe
This article focuses on the trafficking segment of the illegal wildlife market, or more specifically on organised trafficking in rhino horns from...
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“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...
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Wildlife Management, Species Injustice and Ecocide in the Anthropocene
Norway has been signatory to the Council of Europe’s Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (1979) (otherwise known...
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Significance
Significance—The illegal wildlife trade presents a number of threats to a number of different aspects of societies and communities around the world....