The Extinction Market Wildlife Trafficking and How to Counter It [Paperback]

The planet is currently experiencing alarming levels of species loss caused in large part by intensified poaching and wildlife trafficking driven by expanding demand, for medicines, for food, and for trophies. Affecting many more species than just the iconic elephants, rhinos, and tigers, the rate of extinction is now as much as 1000 times the historical average and the worst since the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago. In addition to causing irretrievable biodiversity loss, wildlife trafficking also poses serious threats to public health, potentially triggering a global pandemic.

The Extinction Market explores the causes, means, and consequences of poaching and wildlife trafficking, with a view to finding ways of suppressing them. Vanda Felbab-Brown travelled to the markets of Latin America, South and South East Asia, and eastern and southern Africa, to evaluate the effectiveness of various tools, including bans on legal trade, law enforcement, and interdiction; allowing legal supply from hunting or farming; alternative livelihoods; anti- money-laundering efforts; and demand reduction strategies.

This is an urgent book offering meaningful solutions to one of the world's most pressing crises.

List of Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. The Wildlife Trade and the Drug Trade: Similarities and
Differences
3. The Scale of the Illegal Wildlife Economy: Expanding
Demand, Poaching, and Trafficking
4. Why It Matters: The Complex Threats to the State,
Communities, and the Environment
5. The Many Actors Involved in Poaching and Wildlife
Trafficking
6. Policy Response I: Bans and Law Enforcement
7. Policy Response II: Legal Trade in Hunted and Farmed
Wild Animals
8. Policy Response III: Local Community Involvement
9. Policy Response IV: Anti-Money-Laundering Efforts
10. Policy Response V: Demand Reduction
11. Conclusions and Policy Recommendations
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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