I often hear the ivory trade 🐘 in Japan 🇯🇵 used as an example of how demand reduction efforts can turn things around but what does the evidence say? 🤓

Read our thoughts below based on a long time coming paper in Conservation&Society led by Dr Laura Thomas-Walters!

theconversation.com/japans-ivory-m…

The papers from one of our core #WildlifeTrade case studies are now out - showing the value of an interdisciplinary approach and international collaborative team when studying complex trade issues

This Friday, September 30, from 6:30 to 8 PM IST (9 to 10:30 AM ET), the third Tiger Dialogue, hosted with WCS-India and WWF-India, takes place. This time, the panel will feature Dr. John Goodrich, Panthera Tiger Program Director,...

Kumar Paudel et Al study says wildlife reporting practices create ‘feedback loops’ that may reinforce biases and can further entrench official responses to wildlife crime. My new story for Mongabay

news.mongabay.com/2022/04/in-med…

Congrats to CLP alumni Kumar Paudel & Diogo Veríssimo diogoverissimo.bsky.social who have co-authored this recent #OpenAccess paper on illegal #wildlifetrade in #Nepal 👏

The study shows how media reports cannot be solely relied upon to inform #conservation decision-making
#WeAreCLP

peerj.com/articles/13156/

Excited to share my latest paper with Amy Hinsley Diogo Veríssimo diogoverissimo.bsky.social EJ Milner-Gulland on evaluating the reliability of media reports for gathering information about illegal wildlife trade seizures, published in PeerJ Publishing. 1/9

This fills a really important gap in our knowledge and understanding of #IWT Wildlife Trade

New funding initiative from the US Government aimed at combatting wildlife trafficking! Looking for robust #research and conservation projects that build & use #evidence !

Globally, hundreds of thousands of rangers patrol 1000s of PAs daily. How can we maximize their efforts and data to minimise threats to biodiversity? See our uploaded talks (thanks speakers!) & join the live discussion at ICCB 2021 :) SCB Africa ICCS Rohit

So cool to see saiga horns & our paper featured on Conservation Science and Practice’s front cover! Our study found young adults in Singapore cared more about price & convenience than any one type of ‘cooling water’ inc ones made with saiga horn doi.org/10.1111/csp2.5…

'There is no one-size-fits-all solution for detecting wildlife trading online. Our study establishes a framework for thinking about how different sectors of illicit or harmful activity can be understood & moderated more effectively,' said Amy Hinsley.
biology.ox.ac.uk/article/social…

🇻🇳🐻 Will the end of bear bile farming increase demand for wild bear bile in Vietnam? 🔍🔗conservationandsociety.org.in/preprintarticl…

📢 New publication!

Read our latest POLICY PRIMER for an updated information base to understand:

1⃣ The different ways nature links with the sustainable trade agenda
2⃣ New opportunities for concerted action

More here: tradehub.earth/biodiversity-a…

UN Environment Programme Forum on Trade, Environment & the SDGs UK Research and Innovation

Wildlife trafficking in digital marketplaces is rampant and dangerous to the future of our planet.

Today at 10AM ET | 3PM UTC, tune in for a Q&A with National Whistleblower Center to learn how #whistleblowers , #BigTech , and YOU can help #ActForAnimals .

What drives consumers’ choice of drinks made with endangered saiga antelope horn versus alternatives? Using a labelled choice experiment we found respondents most cared about *lower prices & nearby stores* rather than product! bit.ly/3k15g6l (1/2)

Hello #AcademicTwitter Do you have any suggestions to learn #WildlifeTrade Regulations and Enforcement?
I luckily came across this book but probably need to find more recent REVIEW articles and/or books.

📢New #OA research 📢 on consumer preferences for #shark 🦈fin in #China 🇨🇳. Please RT! Thread 🧵👇

Take home: Consumers prefer higher $$ and rare shark-fins, obtained without finning. BUT we found 3 consumer groups with differences between them

Link: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…

The fourth chapter of my PhD thesis is out 👏👏🥳🥳, with EJ Milner-Gulland, S. Gelcich, and Emile Mathieu in Conservation Biology #openaccess :

'A dynamic simulation model to support reduction in illegal trade within legal wildlife markets'

Find it here: bit.ly/3AiujXS
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Exciting new grant schemes under @Darwin_Defra just announced - take a look! Larger-scale, longer grants, testing out new scalable ideas for #poverty alleviation & #conservation , building conservation capability in #biodiverse #LMIC countries.

IIED's dilys roe will join this The BMJ #CovidUnknowns webinar tomorrow, where she'll be discussing the wildlife trade and changing ecosystems.

Find out more and register to attend now. ⬇