Audiences Discussed: Policymakers
Measuring Efforts to Combat Wildlife Crime: A Toolkit for Improving Action and Accountability
This resource (also known as the CWT Toolkit) includes results chains, suggested indicators, and suggested outcome statements for ten common strategic approaches to combat wildlife crime.
Estimating the economic losses to tourism in Africa from illegal killing of elephants
Recent published report that suggests that attempts to quantify economic damages to African economies from the elephant poaching crisis.
Wildlife & Forest Crime Analytic Toolkit
This toolkit is intended to serve as an initial entry point for national governments, international actors, practitioners and scholars to better understand the complexity of wildlife and forest crime, and to serve as a framework around which a prevention and response strategy can be developed.
Dismantling Wildlife Crime
This summary report, developed in preparation for the 2012 Fuller Science for Nature Symposium on Conservation Crime, provides a high-level overview of persistent challenges and suggested priorities for improving the effectiveness of enforcement efforts.
Strengthening the Weakest Links: Strategies for Improving the Enforcement of Environmental Laws Globally
This report presents a theoretical framework for enforcement as well as a deep analysis of four country case studies on their performance with enforcement of environmental laws.
In Cold Blood: Combating Organized Wildlife Crime
This gray-lit report on the scale and scope of global wildlife trafficking issues includes a summary of major relevant international resolutions and agreements.
Horn of Contention: A Review of the Literature on the Economics of Trade in Rhino Horn
This paper offers insight into the predicted bio-economic effects of legalizing the trade of rhino horns, with important theoretical implications for similar illegal wildlife products.
The Disappearing Act: The Illicit Trade in Wildlife in Asia
A Foreign Policy working paper by the Brookings Institution that reviews the current status of illegal wildlife trade in Asia and provides a broad set of guidelines for designing policy responses.
Criminal Justice Response to Wildlife and Forest Crime in Cambodia: A Rapid Assessment
A 2015 rapid assessment by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime on the status of Cambodian criminal justice response to wildlife crime.
The South Africa - Viet Nam Rhino Horn Trade Nexus: A Deadly Combination of Institutional Lapses, Corrupt Wildlife Industry Professionals and Asian Crime Syndicates
This is a 2012 TRAFFIC report summarizing the dynamics and drivers of the illegal trade in rhino horn from South Africa to Vietnam and aims to contribute understanding toward the “salient factors both in source country and end-use markets that underlie the current rhino crisis.
Successful Reduction in Rhino Poaching in Nepal
This journal article is a case study of Nepal’s successful efforts to reduce rhino poaching, and contains a review of the actions taken by the Nepalese government and partners, statistics of rhino poaching and populations, and the factors which may have contributed to a sharp decline in poaching.
Changes for Justice Project: Final Report
This is the final report for the Changes for Justice Project (C4J), a 5-year USAID contract implemented by Chemonics in Indonesia from 2010 to 2015 that had significant success building the capacity of the justice system to address environmental crime.
Competences for Personnel of Protected Areas and Other Conservation Sites: A Global Register and User Guide
The goal of the Global Register is to define and classify all the competencies potentially required for effective, efficient, and equitable management by people working in protected areas.
Anti-Poaching and Wildlife Law Enforcement in Africa: What Works, Where, and Why?
This report is a systematic review of effective wildlife law enforcement practices across Africa in light of the current poaching crisis.
