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Combating Wildlife Trafficking Learning Exchange: Demand Reduction Posters
In November 2019, USAID hosted a regional CWT learning exchange in Bangkok, Thailand.
USAID Wildlife Asia as a case study in adaptive rigour: Monitoring, evaluation and learning for adaptive management
In 2018, the USAID Office of Forestry and Biodiversity and Measuring Impact II began a collaboration with the USAID Bureau for Policy, Planning, and Learning and the UK Department for International Development.
Combating Wildlife Trafficking Learning Exchange: Meeting Report
In November 2019, USAID hosted a regional CWT learning exchange in Bangkok, Thailand.
Effectiveness of a social marketing strategy, coupled with law enforcement, to conserve tigers and their prey in Nam Et Phou Louey National Protected Area, Lao People’s Democratic Republic
To reduce these threats the Nam Et Phou Louey National Protected Area is using a social marketing campaign in parallel with traditional enforcement to change the behavior of illegal hunters, village members, and government officials.
Evaluating the Design of Behavior Change Interventions: A Case Study of Rhino Horn in Vietnam
Behavioral change interventions are increasingly widely used in conservation.
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.
Reducing Desire for Ivory: A Psychosocial Guide to Address Ivory Consumption
This Guide presents a psychosocial approach to demand reduction; one that acknowledges the relationship between individual psychology and the social context in which people live.
Reducing Desire for Ivory: A Psychosocial Guide to Address Ivory Consumption
This Guide presents a psychosocial approach to demand reduction; one that acknowledges the relationship between individual psychology and the social context in which people live.
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.
Poaching Is More Than an Enforcement Problem
A policy paper that explores strategies to reduce poaching other than enforcement, including demand reduction, farmed wildlife, social marketing, and incentivizing and empowering local communities.
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.
Mid-Term Performance Evaluation of Asia’s Regional Response to Endangered Species Trafficking (ARREST) Program
This report is a mid-term performance evaluation of Asia’s Regional Response to Endangered Species Trafficking (ARREST), authored by MSI, and used “a mixed-methods evaluation design that combined qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection: document review, key informant interviews, and a survey.
