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The Extinction Market - Wildlife Trafficking and How to Counter it (Paperback)
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The Extinction Market - Wildlife Trafficking and How to Counter it (Paperback)
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List price R225
Loot Price R176
Discovery Miles 1 760
You Save R49 (22%)
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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.
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