• E4J University Module Series: Wildlife Crime

• Module 4: Illegal exploitation of wild flora
  

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

  • Wild flora as the target of illegal trafficking
  • Purposes for which wild flora is illegally targeted
  • How is it done and who is involved?
  • Consequences of harms to wild flora
  • Criminal justice responses
  • References

• Exercises

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Additional teaching tools

 

Published in January 2022

 

 

  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Advanced reading

 

The following readings are recommended for students interested in exploring the topics of this Module in more detail, and for lecturers teaching the Module:

• Hinsley, A. (2018). The role of online platforms in the illegal orchid trade from South East Asia. The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. Geneva.
• Timoshyna, A., Ke, Z., Yang, Y., Ling, X., Leaman, D. (2020). The Invisible Trade: Wild plants and you in the times of COVID-19 and the essential journey towards sustainability. TRAFFIC.
• UNODC (2020). World Wildlife Crime Report. Trafficking in protected species.
• Wandersee, J. H., & Schussler, E. E. (1999). Preventing plant blindness. The American Biology Teacher, 61(2), 82-86.
• Wyatt, T., van Uhm, D., & Nurse, A. (2020). Differentiating criminal networks in the illegal wildlife trade: organized, corporate and disorganized crime. Trends in Organized Crime, 1-17.

 

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