Illegal wildlife trade: Scale, processes, and governance

M 't Sas-Rolfes, DWS Challender… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Illegal wildlife trade (IWT) has increased in profile in recent years as a global policy issue,
largely because of its association with declines in prominent internationally trafficked …

Corruption and anti-corruption in environmental and resource management

L Tacconi, DA Williams - Annual Review of Environment and …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Corruption significantly affects the large majority of countries, and it has negative social and
economic impacts. Its impacts on environmental and resource management (ERM) sectors …

Developing a theory of change for a community‐based response to illegal wildlife trade

D Biggs, R Cooney, D Roe, HT Dublin… - Conservation …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The escalating illegal wildlife trade (IWT) is one of the most high‐profile conservation
challenges today. The crisis has attracted over US $350 million in donor and government …

African elephant poaching rates correlate with local poverty, national corruption and global ivory price

S Hauenstein, M Kshatriya, J Blanc… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Poaching is contributing to rapid declines in elephant populations across Africa. Following
high-profile changes in the political environment, the overall number of illegally killed …

Corruption and wildlife trafficking: three case studies involving Asia

T Wyatt, K Johnson, L Hunter, R George… - Asian Journal of …, 2018 - Springer
As wildlife trafficking or the illegal wildlife trade has taken a more prominent place on the
global agenda, discussions are taking place as to how wildlife trafficking happens. An …

Conservation status of Asian elephants: the influence of habitat and governance

A Calabrese, JM Calabrese, M Songer… - Biodiversity and …, 2017 - Springer
Understanding the drivers of Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) abundance and distribution
is critical for effective elephant conservation, yet no such analysis exists despite decades of …

Increase anti‐poaching law‐enforcement or reduce demand for wildlife products? A framework to guide strategic conservation investments

MH Holden, D Biggs, H Brink, P Bal… - Conservation …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Donors, NGOs, and governments increasingly invest in campaigns to reduce consumer
demand for wildlife products in an attempt to prevent the decline of overexploited and …

To trade or not to trade? Using Bayesian belief networks to assess how to manage commercial wildlife trade in a complex world

EL Bennett, FM Underwood… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
International commercial trade in wildlife, whether legal or illegal, is one of the greatest
threats to multiple species of wildlife today. Opinions on how to address it are deeply divided …

Understanding illegality and corruption in forest governance

A Sundström - Journal of environmental management, 2016 - Elsevier
This review synthesizes the literature studying illegality and government corruption in forest
management. After discussing the theoretical connections between different types of …

Wildlife and wildlife management in Tanzania

T Caro, TRB Davenport - Conservation Biology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Tanzania, arguably mainland Africa's most important nation for conservation, is losing
habitat and natural resources rapidly. Moving away from a charcoal energy base and …