• E4J University Module Series: Wildlife Crime

• Module 5: Sustainable livelihoods and community engagement
  

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

  • Terminology
  • Background: Communities and conservation: A history of disenfranchisement
  • Incentives for communities to get involved in illegal wildlife trafficking: the cost of conservation
  • Incentives to participate in illegal wildlife, logging and fishing economies
  • Impact of enforcement-based approaches to wildlife trafficking on IPLCs
  • International and regional responses that fight wildlife trafficking while supporting IPLCs
  • Mechanisms for incentivizing community conservation and reducing wildlife trafficking
  • Critiques of community engagement
  • Other challenges posed by wildlife trafficking that affect local populations
  • References

• Exercises

• Possible class structure

• Additional teaching tools

 

Published in January 2022

 

 

  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

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