Tools and terms for understanding illegal wildlife trade

J Phelps, D Biggs, EL Webb - Frontiers in Ecology and the …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Illegal wildlife trade (IWT) is a global conservation issue that threatens thousands of species,
including fish, fungi, medicinal plants, and charismatic mammals. Despite widespread …

Crime scripting: A systematic review

H Dehghanniri, H Borrion - European Journal of Criminology, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
More than two decades after the publication of Cornish's seminal work about the script-
theoretic approach to crime analysis, this article examines how the concept has been …

[HTML][HTML] Wildlife crime: a conceptual integration, literature review, and methodological critique

J Kurland, SF Pires, SC McFann, WD Moreto - Crime Science, 2017 - Springer
Wildlife crime, including poaching and wildlife trafficking, threaten the existence of particular
species. To date, research on wildlife crime has been primarily conducted by those with …

Corruption within the illegal wildlife trade: a symbiotic and antithetical enterprise

DP Van Uhm, WD Moreto - The British Journal of Criminology, 2018 - academic.oup.com
This study focuses on the role of corruption in facilitating the illegal wildlife trade. This
research attempts to contribute to the literature by disentangling the existence, influence and …

Poaching in Uganda: Perspectives of law enforcement rangers

WD Moreto, AM Lemieux - Deviant Behavior, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Much of prior empirical research examining poachers and poaching strategies have
originated from interviews with poachers and wildlife law enforcement officers within North …

[HTML][HTML] The illegal trade in black caviar

D Van Uhm, D Siegel - Trends in Organized Crime, 2016 - Springer
The trade in caviar has a rich and colorful history, influenced over thousands of years by
many cultures, societies and in the last decades by regulation. The value of caviar is …

Conservation, wildlife crime, and tough-on-crime policies: Lessons from the criminological literature

L Wilson, R Boratto - Biological Conservation, 2020 - Elsevier
As wildlife crime increasingly threatens global biodiversity, many conservation scientists and
practitioners have turned to aggressive land management and criminal justice strategies …

A synthesis of (non‐) compliance theories with applications to small‐scale fisheries research and practice

R Oyanedel, S Gelcich, EJ Milner‐Gulland - Fish and Fisheries, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐compliance in fisheries is a persistent challenge for the conservation and sustainable
management of the oceans and has particularly acute impacts in small‐scale fisheries …

Prevalence and perspectives of illegal trade in cacti and succulent plants in the collector community

JD Margulies, FR Moorman, B Goettsch… - Conservation …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Although illegal wildlife trade (IWT) represents a serious threat to biodiversity, research into
the prevalence of illegal plant collection and trade remains scarce. Because cacti and …

Who sets the agenda? The dynamic agenda setting of the wildlife issue on social media

X Wang, L Chen, J Shi, H Tang - Environmental Communication, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Following the COVID-19's outbreak in China, wildlife-related issues such as wildlife
management and conservation made headlines around the world due to the potential …