• E4J University Module Series: Wildlife Crime

• Module 1: Illicit Markets for Wildlife, Forest and Fisheries Products

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• • Demand and consumption
  • Data
  • Supply and demand
  • Implications of wildlife trafficking
  • Legal and illegal markets
  • Perpetrators and their networks
  • Locations and activities relating to wildlife trafficking
  • References

• Exercises

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Additional teaching tools

 

Published in September 2019 

Regional Perspective: Eastern and Southern Africa - added in April 2020

 

 

  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Core reading

 

This section provides a list of (mostly) open access materials that the lecturer could ask the students to read before taking a class based on this Module.

• Lemieux, Andrew M & Ronald V Clarke, ' The International Ban on Ivory Sales and its Effects on Elephant Poaching in Africa' (2009) British Journal of Criminology 451-471
• Pires, Stephen F & William D Moreto, The Illegal Wildlife Trade, Oxford Handbooks Online (2016)
• Rosen, Gail E & Katherine F Smith, ' Summarizing the Evidence on International Trade in Illegal Wildlife' (2010) 7 EcoHealth 24-32
• Strydom, Hennie, 'Transnational Organized Crime and the Illegal Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora', in Pierre Hauck & Sven Peterke (eds), International Law and Transnational Organized Crime (2016) 264-286
• UNODC, World Wildlife Crime Report (2016)

 

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