Protecting endangered species

Abstract

After drugs and guns it is the illegal trade in wildlife, whether dead or alive, that generates the biggest global share of illicit sales, amounting to $10 billion a year. However, it has the weakest enforcement apparatus by a long way of the ‘big three’ sectors. How is this so?

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Notes on contributors

Jasper Humphreys

Jasper Humphreys is Director of External Affairs of the Marjan Centre for the Study of Conflict and Conservation, Department of War Studies, King's College, University of London.

M L R Smith

M L R Smith is Professor of Strategic Theory in the Department of War Studies, King's College, University of London. He is Academic Director of the Marjan Centre for the Study of Conflict and Conservation.