Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Endangered species
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
International Wildlife Trafficking Threats to Conservation and National Security
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Endangered species
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
International Wildlife Trafficking Threats to Conservation and National Security
Author: United States. CongressPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781977642912
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
International wildlife trafficking threats to conservation and national security : hearing before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, second session, February 26, 2014.
Security and Conservation
Author: Rosaleen DuffyPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300230184
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
An exploration of the scale, practical reality, and future implications of the growing integration of biodiversity conservation with global security concerns "There are few keener observers of international biodiversity conservation than Rosaleen Duffy. With a ferocity of purpose, she investigates the tenuous connection and nuances among illegal wildlife trade, terrorism threats, and national security."--Steven R. Brechin, Rutgers University, New Brunswick Debates regarding environmental security risks have generally focused on climate change and geopolitical water conflicts. Biodiversity conservation, however, is increasingly identified as a critical contributor to national and global security. The illegal wildlife trade is often articulated as a driver of biodiversity losses, and as a source of finance for organized crime networks, armed groups, and even terrorist networks. Conservationists, international organizations, and national governments have raised concerns about "convergence" of wildlife trafficking with other serious offenses, including theft, fraud, corruption, drugs and human trafficking, counterfeiting, firearms smuggling, and money laundering. In Security and Conservation, Rosaleen Duffy examines the scale, practical reality, and future implications of the growing integration of biodiversity conservation with global security concerns. Duffy takes a political ecology approach to develop a deeper understanding of how and why wildlife conservation turned toward security-oriented approaches to tackle the illegal wildlife trade.
International Wildlife Trafficking Threats to Conservation and National Security
Author: Committee on Committee on Foreign Affairs House of RepresentativesPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781502384829
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
There is a major slaughter going on across the African subcontinent. If we had looked at the numbers a several years ago we would have found that between 1990 and 2005, South Africa lost 14 rhinos a year. In 2013, there were thousands slaughtered. If we look at elephants, in 2011, 17,000 elephants were killed in sub-Saharan Africa illegally. The following year 30,000 elephants were killed. We are at a pivotal moment in the conservation movement with an alarming and unprecedented dramatic increase in the slaughter of wildlife. How can this be? National parks across Africa are the battlefield in which these species are being slaughtered. Organized crime, and increasingly rebel groups and terrorist organizations like al-Shabaab are using new weaponry that these animals have not been up against in the past. Driving the slaughter is the value. The value of rhino horn right now is $60,000 per kilo. That is more than platinum and cocaine. The cost of ivory is $1,000 per kilogram. Trafficking is now among the most lucrative criminal activities worldwide, generating $8 to $10 billion per year.
The Extinction Market
Author: Vanda Felbab-BrownPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190855118
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Emphasizes the disturbing consequences poaching and trafficking pose globally in terms of both biodiversity and public health
International Wildlife Trafficking Threats to Conservation and National Security
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Endangered species
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
World Wildlife Crime Report 2020
Author: United Nations PublicationsPublisher: UN
ISBN: 9789211483499
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The report presents the latest assessment of global trends in wildlife crime. It includes discussions on illicit rosewood, ivory, rhino horn, pangolin scales, live reptiles, tigers and other big cats, and European eel. The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic has highlighted that wildlife crime is a threat not only to the environment and biodiversity, but also to human health, economic development and security. Zoonotic diseases - those caused by pathogens that spread from animals to humans - represent up to 75% of all emerging infectious diseases. Trafficked wild species and the resulting products offered for human consumption, by definition, escape any hygiene or sanitary control, and therefore pose even greater risks of infection.
Women and Wildlife Trafficking
Author: Helen U. AguPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000563103
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
This volume examines women and wildlife trafficking via a collection of narratives, case studies and theoretical syntheses from diverse voices and disciplines. Wildlife trafficking has been documented in over 120 countries around the world. While species extinction and animal abuse are major problems, wildlife trafficking is also associated with corruption, national insecurity, spread of zoonotic disease, undercutting sustainable development investments and erosion of cultural resources, among others. The role of women in wildlife trafficking has remained woefully under-addressed, with scientists and policymakers failing to consider the important causes and consequences of the gendered dimensions of wildlife trafficking. Although the roles of women in wildlife trafficking are mostly unknown, they are not unknowable. This volume helps fill a lacuna by examining the roles and experiences of women with case studies drawn from across the world, including Mexico, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, South Africa and Norway. Women can be wildlife trafficking preventors, perpetrators, and pawns; their roles in facilitating wildlife trafficking are considered from both a supply and a demand viewpoint. The first half of the book assesses the range of science, offering four different perspectives on how women and wildlife trafficking can be studied or evaluated. The second half of the book profiles diverse case studies from around the world, offering context-specific insight about on-the-ground activities associated with women and wildlife trafficking. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of wildlife crime, environmental law, human geography, conservation, gender studies and green criminology. It will also be of interest to NGOs and policymakers working to improve efficacy of efforts targeting wildlife crime, the illegal wildlife trade and conservation more broadly.
International Illegal Trade in Wildlife
Author: Liana Sun WylerPublisher: Scholar's Choice
ISBN: 9781296051372
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
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Poaching, Wildlife Trafficking and Security in Africa
Author: Cathy HaenleinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351370804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
A worldwide surge in poaching and wildlife trafficking is threatening to decimate endangered species. This crisis also threatens the security of human beings in ways ignored until recently by decision-makers slow to begin to treat what is typically viewed as a ‘conservation issue’ as serious crime. Over the past decade, as the scale and profitability of poaching and wildlife trafficking have grown, politicians, journalists and campaigners throughout the world have begun to take notice – they are offering striking appraisals of the threat posed not only to endangered species but also to human populations. Many of these appraisals, however, are made in the absence of a detailed body of empirical research and analysis to underpin them. The result is the growth of a range of myths and misperceptions around the security threats posed, particularly as they relate to Africa. Poaching, Wildlife Trafficking and Security in Africa examines the most common narratives on poaching, wildlife trafficking and security. It critically analyses the dominant discourses on poaching and wildlife trafficking as threats to human security, as drivers of conflict, as funders of terrorism and as a focus for organised crime. In doing so, it seeks to sort myth from reality, to clarify how poaching and wildlife trafficking, as much cited threats to security, can most accurately be conceived. Such a study is crucial to the efforts of stakeholders now rightly looking to respond not just to the threat posed to endangered species, but also to the security and wellbeing of human beings.