CRIME PREVENTION AND THE ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE

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CRIME PREVENTION AND THE ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE
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• The Illegal Wildlife Trade
• CITES
• The Scope of the Black Market
• The Significance
• Prevention

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• The Illegal Wildlife Trade
• CITES
• The Scope of the Black Market
• The Significance
• Prevention

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The Illegal Wildlife Trade

• Definitions
• The Wildlife
• Live Animals
• Animal Parts
• Live Plants
• Plant Parts

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The Illegal Wildlife Trade

• Definitions
• The Wildlife
• Live Animals
• Animal Parts
• Live Plants
• Plant Parts

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Definitions

• Trade
• Wildlife Crime
• Wildlife Trafficking or Illegal Wildlife Trade
• the trade of endangered species, protected
  wildlife (including animals or plants that are
  subject to harvest quotas), derivatives or
  products thereof

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Definitions

• Trade
• Wildlife Crime
• Wildlife Trafficking or Illegal Wildlife Trade
• the trade of endangered species, protected
  wildlife (including animals or plants that are
  subject to harvest quotas), derivatives or
  products thereof

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Definitions

• Trade
• Wildlife Crime
• Wildlife Trafficking or Illegal Wildlife Trade
• the trade of endangered species, protected
  wildlife (including animals or plants that are
  subject to harvest quotas), derivatives or
  products thereof

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Definitions

• Trade
• Wildlife Crime
• Wildlife Trafficking or Illegal Wildlife Trade
• the trade of endangered species, protected
  wildlife (including animals or plants that are
  subject to harvest quotas), derivatives or
  products thereof

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The Illegal Wildlife Trade

• Definitions
• The Wildlife
• Live Animals
• Animal Parts
• Live Plants
• Plant Parts

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The Illegal Wildlife Trade

• Definitions
• The Wildlife
• Live Animals
• Animal Parts
• Live Plants
• Plant Parts

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Live Animals

• Big and small cats
• Clouded leopard
• Birds
• Parrots

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Live Animals

• Reptiles
• Komodo dragon
• Elephants

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Live Animals

• Fish
• Seahorses
• Primates
• Spider Monkey

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The Illegal Wildlife Trade

• Definitions
• The Wildlife
• Live Animals
• Animal Parts
• Live Plants
• Plant Parts

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Animal Parts

• Live bears used to farm bear bile

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Animal Parts

• Bushmeat
• Fur pelts and skins

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Animal Parts

• Musk pods from the Siberian Musk Deer

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Animal Parts

• Tibetan Antelope is poached for its wool -
  shahtoosh

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Animal Parts

• Caviar
• Ivory

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The Illegal Wildlife Trade

• Definitions
• The Wildlife
• Live Animals
• Animal Parts
• Live Plants
• Plant Parts

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Live Plants

• Cacti Orchids

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The Illegal Wildlife Trade

• Definitions
• The Wildlife
• Live Animals
• Animal Parts
• Live Plants
• Plant Parts

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Plant Parts

• Sandalwood Panax Ginseng

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• The Illegal Wildlife Trade
• CITES
• The Scope of the Black Market
• The Significance
• Prevention

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CITES

• Convention on the International Trade of
  Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
• A system of import and export permits to regulate
  and monitor the trade of plants and animals of
  differing levels of endangerment

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• The Illegal Wildlife Trade
• CITES
• The Scope of the Black Market
• The Significance
• Prevention

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The Scope of the Black Market

• 25,000 species require CITES permits
• 350 million plants and animals trade each year
  worth 50 billion
• 1/4 of this is estimated to be illegal
• 2nd only to the drug trade in profit
• The EU is thought to account for 1/3 of the
  illegality.

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• The Illegal Wildlife Trade
• CITES
• The Scope of the Black Market
• The Significance
• Prevention

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The Significance

• Environment
• Loss of Biodiversity
• Biosecurity
• Discriminatory Nature
• Minorities
• Poor
• Women

• National Security
• State Corruption
• Transnational Crime
• Organized Crime
• Illicit Trades
• Drugs
• Weapons
• Humans

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• The Illegal Wildlife Trade
• CITES
• The Scope of the Black Market
• The Significance
• Prevention

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Prevention

• Supply
• Penalties/Fines
• Criminal Justice System
• Legislation
• Socio-economic

• Demand
• Education
• Shaming
• Moral Stigma

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Final Thoughts
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CRIME PREVENTION AND THE ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE

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