Beyond enforcement: Communities and wildlife crime

Workshop on communities, governance, incentives and sustainable use in combating wildlife crime. Growing concern over illegal trade in high-value wild plants and animals has, in many contexts, resulted in increased State enforcement. This has, in turn, raised concerns about the social impacts and ecological effectiveness of State enforcement-based conservation approaches.

This workshop, held

just outside of Johannesburg, South Africa, brought together practitioners and academics from across the world to consider community-based approaches to contending with illegal wildlife trade. Discussions focused on community-enforcement cooperation, community rights devolution, and various incentives strategies to engage communities in conservation of high value wildlife.

I presented a paper about actor and network typologies in the illegal wildlife trade, based on a collaboration with Ted Webb and Duan Biggs.

Read more: http://pubs.iied.org/G03872.html

(Photo: Kumar Paudel)

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