Animals & Biodiversity

Think Tank Programme

Wildlife Trade, Wildlife Crime, Species Extinction & Biodiversity Loss

Books

  • Adams, D. (1992) Last chance to see. Ballantine Books
  • Anthony, L. (2013) The last rhinos. Pan Books
  • Ashcroft, M. (2020) Unfair Game: An exposé of South Africa’s captive-bred lion industry. Biteback Publishing
  • Attenborough, D. (2019) Life on Earth. William Collins
  • Benton, T. (1993) Natural Relations: Ecology, Animal Rights and Social Justice. Verso
  • Boyd, D. R. (2017) The Rights of Nature: A legal revolution that could save the world. ECW Press
  • Braverman, I. (2016) Animals, Biopolitics, Law. Lively Legalities. Routledge
  • Burdon, P. (2011) Exploring Wild Law: The philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence. Wakefield Press
  • Cullinan, C. (2011) Wild Law: A Manifesto for Earth Justice. Green Books
  • Deghan, A. (2019) The Snow Leopard Project: And other adventures in warzone conservation. PublicAffairs
  • Dennis, R. (2021) Restoring the Wild: Sixty years of rewilding our skies, woods and waterways. William Collins
  • Elliot, R. (1995) Environmental Ethics. OUP
  • Evans, S. (2019) When the last lion roars: The rise and fall of the king of beasts. Bloomsbury Wildlife
  • Felbab Brown, V. (2017) The Extinction Marke: Wildlife Trafficking and How to Counter it. OUP
  • Fryxell, J. M., Sinclair, A. R. E., Caughley, G. (2014) Wildlife Ecology, Conservation, and Management. Wiley-Blackwell
  • Gonçalves, E. (2020) Trophy hunters exposed: Inside the big game industry. Independently published
  • Hambler, C. (2013) Conservation. Cambridge University Press
  • Jamieson, D. (2008) Ethics and the Environment: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press
  • Jepson, P., Blythe, C. (2020) Rewilding: The radical new science of ecological recovery. Icon Books Ltd
  • Johannsen, K. (2021) Wild Animal Ethics. The Moral and Political Problem of Wild Animal Suffering. Routledge
  • Kemmerer, L. (2015) Animals and the Environment: Advocacy, activism, and the quest for common ground. Routledge

 

 

  • Korsgaard, C. M. (2020) Fellow Creatures. OUP
  • Loveridge, A. (2020) Lion Hearted: The Life and Death of Cecil & the Future of Africa’s Iconic Cats. Regan Arts
  • McCullough, D. R. (1996). Metapopulations and wildlife conservation. Island Press.
  • Mills, L. S. (2012) Conversation of Wildlife Populations: Demography, Genetics, and Management. Wiley-Blackwell
  • Moreto, W. (2018). Wildlife crime: Politics, people, and prevention.
  • Moss, S., Attenborough, D. (2018) Dynasties: The rise and fall of animal families. BBC Books
  • Nijhuis, M. (2021) Beloved Beasts: Fighting for life in an age of extinction. W. W. Norton & Company
  • Nuwer, R.L. (2018) Poached: inside the dark world of wildlife trafficking. Scribe publications
  • Prins, H. H., Grootenhuis, J. G., & Dolan, T. T. (Eds.). (2012). Wildlife conservation by sustainable use (Vol. 12). Springer Science & Business Media.
  • Pye, S. (2020) Saving Sun Bears: One man’s quest to save a species. Signal 8 Press
  • Rademeyer, J. (2012) Killing for Profit: Exposing the Illegal Rhino Horn Trade. Zebra Press
  • Safina, C. (2016) Beyond Words: What animals think and feel. Picador USA
  • Safina, C. (2020) Becoming Wild: How animals learn to be animals. Oneworld Publications
  • Safina, C. (2020) Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures raise Families, create Beauty, and achieve Peace. Henry Holt & Company
  • Somerville, K. (2016) Ivory: Power and Poaching in Africa. C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
  • Weidensaul, S. (2021) A world on the wing: The global odyssey of migratory birds. Picador
  • White, R. (Ed.). (2013). Global environmental harm: Criminological perspectives. Routledge.
  • Wilson-Wilde, L. (2010). Combating wildlife crime. Springer. 
  • Wohlleben, P. (2019) The Secret Network of Nature: The delicate balance of all living things. Vintage
  • Wolfe, C. (2012) Before the Law: Humans and other animals in a biopolitical frame. University of Chicago Press
  • Wolfe, C., Mitchell, W. J. T. (2003) Animal rites: American culture, the discourse of species, and posthumanist theory. University of Chicago Press

 

 

Articles

  • Ayling, J. (2013). What sustains wildlife crime? Rhino horn trading and the resilience of criminal networks. Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy, 16(1), 57-80.
  • Blackburn, T. M., N. Pettorelli, T. Katzner, M. E. Gompper, K. Mock, T. W.J. Garner, R. Altwegg, S. Redpath, and I. J. Gordon. 2010. “Dying for Conservation: Eradicating Invasive Alien Species in the Face of Opposition.” Animal Conservation 13 (3): 227–28. 
  • Bowman, Michael. 2008. “Conflict or Compatibility? The Trade, Conservation and Animal Welfare Dimensions of CITES.” Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy 1 (1): 9. https://doi.org/10.1080/13880299809353883.
  • Büscher, B. (2018). From biopower to ontopower? Violent responses to wildlife crime and the new geographies of conservation. Conservation and Society, 16(2), 157-169.
  • Duffy, R., St John, F. A., Büscher, B., & Brockington, D. (2016). Toward a new understanding of the links between poverty and illegal wildlife hunting. Conservation Biology, 30(1), 14-22.
  • Eliason, S. L. (2008). Wildlife crime: Conservation officers’ perceptions of elusive poachers. Deviant Behavior, 29(2), 111-128.
  • Eliason, S. L. (2020). Poaching, social conflict, and the public trust: Some critical observations on wildlife crime. Capitalism Nature Socialism, 31(2), 110-126.
  • Garland, Elizabeth. 2008. “The Elephant in the Room: Confronting the Colonial Character of Wildlife Conservation in Africa.” African Studies Review 51 (3): 51–74. https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0095.
  • Goodall, O. (2020). Beyond wildlife crime: Towards the concept of ‘mundane fauna crime’. Criminology & Criminal Justice, 1748895820981603.
  • Green, P., Ward, T., & McConnachie, K. (2007). Logging and legality: Environmental crime, civil society, and the state. Social Justice, 34(2 (108), 94-110.
  • Hadley, John. n.d. “Animal Property Rights: Justice or Conservation.” In Resources, Environment and Justice: The Australian Experience, edited by Sonia Graham and Anna Lukasiewcz.
  • Harrop, S. 2000. “The International Regulation of Animal Welfare and Conservation Issues through Standards Dealing with the Trapping of Wild Mammals.” Journal of Environmental Law 12 (3): 333–60. https://doi.org/10.1093/jel/12.3.333.
  • Herbig, J. (2013). The illegal reptile trade as a form of conservation crime: a South African criminological investigation. In Global environmental harm (pp. 128-149). Willan.
  • Hutchins, Michael, and Christen Wemmer. 1986. “Wildlife Conservation and Animal Rights: Are They Compatible?” In Advances in Animal Welfare Science 1986/87, edited by Michael Fox and Linda Mickley, 111–37. The Humane Society of the United States.

 

 

  • Kakabadse, Y. (2011). Fight against Wildlife Crime-Enforcement v. Corruption. Envtl. Pol’y & L., 41, 123.
  • Kurland, J., Pires, S. F., McFann, S. C., & Moreto, W. D. (2017). Wildlife crime: A conceptual integration, literature review, and methodological critique. Crime Science, 6(1), 1-15.
  • Pink, G. (2013). Law enforcement responses to transnational environmental crime: Choices, challenges, and culture. Transnational Environmental Crime Project Working Paper, 4, 2013.
  • Potter, G. R., Nurse, A., & Hall, M. (Eds.). (2016). The geography of environmental crime: conservation, wildlife crime and environmental activism. Springer.
  • Scholtz, Werner. 2017. “Injecting Compassion into International Wildlife Law: From Conservation to Protection?” Transnational Environmental Law 6 (3): 463–83.
  • Sekar, Nitin, and Derek Shiller. 2020. “Engage with Animal Welfare in Conservation.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 369 (6504): 629–30. 
  • Sollund, R. (2020). Wildlife Crime: A Crime of Hegemonic Masculinity?. Social Sciences, 9(6), 93.
  • Sollund, R., & Runhovde, S. R. (2020). Responses to wildlife crime in post-colonial times. Who fares best?. The British Journal of Criminology, 60(4), 1014-1033.
  • Sollund, R. (2021) The development of enforcement of CITES in Norway: Discretionary omissions and theriocides. Revista Catalana de Dret Ambiental
  • Srinivasan, Krithika, and Rajesh Kasturirangan. 2017. “Conservation and Invasive Alien Species: Violent Love.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Animal 
  • Wanger, T. C., Traill, L. W., Cooney, R., Rhodes, J. R., & Tscharntke, T. (2017). Trophy hunting certification. Nature ecology & evolution, 1(12), 1791-1793.
  • Wilson, A. P. (2019) Animal Law in South Africa: “Until the lions have their own lawyers, the law will continue to protect the hunter”. dA. Derecho Animal (Forum of Animal Law Studies) 2019, vol. 10/1, pp. 35-58

 

 

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