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Illegal Trade in Ivory and Rhino Horn: an Assessment Report to Improve Law Enforcement Under the Wildlife TRAPS Project
… decades of hunting pressure was that Africa's Black Rhino population plummeted from an estimated 100,000 animals in … Rhino was reduced to a handful of animals in a single population in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The only … especially those populations that were managed to maximize growth rates. For example, from 2002 through 2005, an average …
World Wildlife Crime Report - Trafficking in protected species
… and this number compared to estimates of the remaining population, taking into account the reproductive prospects of … rarely exceeds 20,000 objects. In contrast, based on population and poaching sur- veys, as well as seizure and … as agarwood. In the past, agarwood was sourced from old growth forests, from trees decades or even centuries old. The …
Illicit wildlife trafficking: An environmental economic and social issue
… direct removal of the wildlife that support and foster growth of the nature-based tourism sector, to creating … driven by significantly rising demand. Sustained economic growth in these markets has given rise to trends such as the … et. al., 2013. Tourism in Africa: Harnessing Tourism for Growth and Improved Livelihoods. World Bank. 14 CITES …
The Enivronmental Crime Crisis - Threats to Sustainable Development from Illegal Exploitation and Trade in Wildlife and Forest Resources. A UNEP Rapid Assessment
… have been too modest, and inadequate to the scale and growth of the threat to wildlife and the environment. A … is in the range of 20–25,000 elephants per year out of a population of 420,000–650,000. For the forest elephant, population size has been estimated to decline by ca. 62% …
Wildlife and Forest Crime Toolkit (Revised Edition)
… diminishing confidence, and harming commerce and economic growth. All of these reasons apply for criminalizing the same … for instance, in denying an offender access to an area or population of species which in turn may prevent illegal … Land use conflicts usually occur as a consequence of a population increase leading to competitive demands for the …
ASEAN Handbook on legal cooperation to combat wildlife crime
… trade of these commodities has undergone unprecedented growth over the past decade, attracting widespread … forbids proposing laws which will increase burden on the population 2 Composed of members with expertise in particular … class protected if it has met the criteria: a. has a small population; b. sharp decrease in the number of individuals in …