The extinction market

Wildlife trafficking and how to counter it

Bibliographic Data

ID9904603
AuthorsTessa Wyatt (0000-0002-5191-7607, Northumbria University, corresponding author), Tanya Wyatt (Northumbria University)
Year2018
Volume94
Issue6
Pages1466-1466
Publication date2018-11-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ia/iiy194
OpenAlexW2900028826
LanguageEN
Citations received20

For many policy-makers and those new to the debates within the complicated area of the illegal wildlife trade, or wildlife trafficking, The extinction market provides an accessible overview of the complexity and challenges in combating this global crisis. Felbab-Brown's approach to developing suggestions on countering wildlife trafficking includes fieldwork in wildlife trafficking hotspots and lessons from the efforts to combat the illegal drug trade. Overall, each chapter provides the big picture on the topics it addresses and, refreshingly, includes examples from Latin America as well as Africa and Asia. For those who have been working in this field for any length of time, however, Felbab-Brown offers only a few nuggets of new information and the author has not drawn on much of the existing research. Her recommendations largely detail how to do more of the same better—efforts to combat the illegal wildlife trade need to include communities, programmes need to be monitored and evaluated, approaches need to be flexible and sustainable trade should be allowed, even encouraged

Business · Environmental planning · Geography · Latin Americans · Political science · Wildlife · Wildlife trade · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Ecology · Law · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

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