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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
Reports and Guidelines
- ABA ROLI. ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRAFFICKING AND ITS RELATION TO TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
- ABA, Global Law Alliance for Animals and the Environment. (2021) Manual para el fortalecimiento de la persecución de delitos contra la vida silvestre
- CALS. Global Law Alliance for Animals and the Environment
- CALS (2020) Global Law Alliance Champions Wild Animals, Wild Spaces at Lewis & Clark Law School
- IFAW (2016) Killing for trophies: An analysis of global trophy hunting trade
- International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime (2020) Annual report: Together against Wildlife Crime
- IPBES (2019) The global assessment report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
- IPBES (2020) Workshop on Biodiversity and Pandemics (Executive Summary)
- Legal Atlas (2021) Wildlife Trade, Pandemics and the Law: Fighting this year’s virus with last year’s law
- Nature Needs More (2021) Modernising CITES: A Blueprint for Better Trade Regulation Comprehensive Strategy for 2030
- TRAFFIC (2018) Bird’s-eye view: Lessons from 50 years of bird trade regulation & conservation in Amazon countries
- TRAFFIC (2018) Reducing demand for illegal wildlife products
- TRAFFIC for the European Commission (2019) An overview of seizures of CITES-listed Wildlife in the European Union
- TRAFFIC (2019) An overview of major Shark traders catchers and species
- TRAFFIC (2020) Endangered by trade: The ongoing illegal pangolin trade in the Philippines
- TRAFFIC (2020) Southeast Asia at the heart of wildlife trade
- TRAFFIC (2020) Wildlife Trade, Covid-19, and Zoonotic Disease Risks
- TRAFFIC (2021) An assessment of trade, mortalities, and anthropogenic threats facing Lions in Tanzania and Mozambique
- TRAFFIC (2021) A response to trade in high value marine products from Africa to Asia
- TRAFFIC (2021) Taking Off: Wildlife Trafficking in the Latin America and Caribbean Region
- TRAFFIC (2021) The often overlooked Ivory Trade
- TRAFFIC (2021) Rapid assessment of the Bushmeat Trade
- TRAFFIC (2021) Smuggled for its song: The trade in Malaysia’s oriental Magpie-Robins
- UNEP, Interpol (2016) The rise of environmental crime: A growing threat to natural resources, peace, development and security. A UNEP-Interpol rapid response assessment
- UNODC (2016) World Wildlife Crime Report, Trafficking in Protected Species
- UNODC (2020) Wildlife Crime, Pangolin Scales
- UNODC (2020) Wolrd Wildlife Crime Report, Trafficking in Protected Species
- World Bank Group (2019) Illegal Logging, Fishing, and Wildlife Trade: The costs and how to combat it
- World Travel & Tourism Council. (2018) The Buenos Aires Declaration. The WTTC Travel & Tourism Declaration on Illegal Trade in Wildlife
- World Travel & Tourism Council. (2019) THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF GLOBAL WILDLIFE TOURISM. TRAVEL & TOURISM AS AN ECONOMIC TOOL FOR THE PROTECTION OF WILDLIFE
- World Travel & Tourism Council. (2021) The Buenos Aires Declaration. The WTTC Travel & Tourism Declaration on Illegal Trade in Wildlife. Signatories as of 9 June 2021
- WWF, ZSL (2018) Living Planet Report: Aiming higher
- WWF, Traffic (2020) Tackling Wildlife Cybercrime in the EU. How technology can help (Joint Report)
- WWF, Traffic (2020) Falling through the System: The role of the European Union captive Tiger population in the trade in Tigers (Joint report)
- WWF, Traffic (2021) The role of France in wildlife trade: An analysis of CITES trade and seizure data (Joint report)
- WWF, Traffic (2021) Shell shocked: Japan’s role in the illegal tortoiseshell trade (Joint report)
Web
- All Creatures Great and Small (2021) Tiger Tiger no longer burning bright: How the tiger trade is driving tigers to extinction
- BBC News (2019) Facial recognition tool tackles illegal chimp trade
- CALS. (2021) Global Law Alliance Combats Wildlife Trafficking in Peru
- CITES
- CITES: ICCWC
- CITES: MIKE
- CITES Trade Database
- CITES (2021) Message of CITES Secretary-General Ivonne Higuero for International Day for Biological Diversity, 22 May 2021
- CITES (2021) The CITES Secretariat welcomes the Kyoto declaration on advancing crime prevention, criminal justice and the rule of law
- CITES (2021) UN World Wildlife Day highlights role of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities’ livelihoods and knowledge in the conservation of forests species and ecosystems
- Earth Journalism: Wildlife Trafficking
- ECOJUST (2020) Disease outbreaks caused by wildlife trade are a global, not just Chinese problem
- End Wildlife Crime
- Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) Global Environmental Crime Tracker
- Global Investigative Journalism Network. Illegal Wildlife Trafficking: A GIJN Guide
- Hypotheses (2021) La conservation de la biodiversité: Un enjeu majeur du concept One Health
- Independent (2021) Gabon and Costa Rica call for a new global agreement to prevent and combat wildlife crime
- National Geographic (2020) The black-market trade in wildlife has moved online, and the deluge is ‘dizzying’
- National Geographic (2020) ‘Tiger King’ star Doc Antle charged with wildlife trafficking
- Nature Needs More
- New Scientist (2021) How our abuse of nature makes pandemics like covid-19 more likely
- NEREUS PROGRAM (2017) International Wildlife Law: Understanding and enhancing its role in Conservation
- Savoir Animal (2021) Tribune pour la sanctuarisation du domaine océanographique français
- The Jane Goodall Institute UK
- The Lighthouse (2021) Why the notorious pangolin deserves our compassion
- The Nature Conservancy (2021) Closing the Gap
- Think Wildlife Foundation (2021) Why are Elephants important for Nature?
- TRAFFIC
- Université de Toulon (2021) Charter on the Law of the Living
- World Travel & Tourism Council. (2021) WTTC release key guidelines for Travel & Tourism businesses to advance the prevention of illegal wildlife trade.
- World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
- WPR (2021) To prevent pandemics and protect biodiversity, combat wildlife crime
- WWF. Endangered Species
Lectures, Workshops and Webinars
- ADM Capital Foundation: Filling the gaps in International Wildlife Law
- Earth Journalism: Webinars
- FATF: Webinar on Money Laundering and the Illegal Wildlife Trade
- Restore our Earth: Born Free’s GLobal Plan to Prioritize Wildlife and Nature (2021)
- Stimson Center: Combating Wildlife Crime and Reducing the Zoonotic Diseases
- TEDx Talk: We are all connected with nature: Nixiwaka Yawanawa (2014)
- The Sustainable Economy Forum: The interconnected nature of things – environment, economy & health