• E4J University Module Series: Wildlife Crime

• Module 2: International Frameworks for Combating Wildlife Trafficking

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• • Environmental protection and conservation
  • CITES and the international trade in endangered species
  • Organized crime and corruption
  • Animal welfare
  • 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.

• Bowman, Michael, Peter Davies, and Catherine Redgwell, Lyster's International Wildlife Law (CUP, 2010) Chapters 14, 15, and 17
• Fajardo, T. (2015). 'Organised Crime and Environmental Crime: Analysis of International Legal Instruments.' European Union Action to Fight Environmental Crime, January 2015.
• Scanlon, John E., 'Do we need a wildlife crime convention?' WildAid, 20 February 2019.
• 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 Organised Crime (2016) 264-286
• UNODC, Wildlife and Forest Crime Analytical Toolkit (revised ed, 2012) (esp. pp. 13-21)

 

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