Can bans stimulate wildlife trade?

Rivalan, Philippe; Delmas, Virginie; Angulo, Elena; Bull, Leigh S.; Hall, Richard J.; Courchamp, Franck; Rosser, Alison M.; Leader‐Williams, Nigel

doi:10.1038/447529a

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“…However, evidence suggest that trade bans can also stimulate illegal trade (Rivalan et al 2007). Applying quotas would generate a situation with a tradeoff difficult to manage: low quotas (small trade volumes) would not reduce the caviar value enough (it would still be "rare") while high quotas (large trade volumes) would not protect the species.…”

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Consumers' taste for rarity drives sturgeons to extinction

Gault

Meinard

Courchamp

2008

Conservation Letters

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The international market for luxury goods puts pressure on many wildlife species, with potentially irreversible consequences for many of them. Although classical economic theory suggests that trade alone would not drive a rare species to extinction, in practice numerous species are being threatened by overexploitation. This is for example the case for sturgeons, exploited for their caviar, of which all 27 species are threatened with extinction. We performed a caviar-tasting experiment, combined with a modeling approach merging ecological theory and psychosociology. This allowed us to demonstrate that the human predisposition to place exaggerated value on rarity drives sturgeons' overexploitation, despite caviar's ever-increasing price and the imminent loss of these species. These findings suggest that this mechanism probably drives the entire market for wildlife based luxury goods.

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Consumers' taste for rarity drives sturgeons to extinction

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Meinard

Courchamp

2008

Conservation Letters

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“…For example, there is a mandatory 2-year gap between proposing to uplist and restrict trade in a harvested species under the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species (www.cites.org) and implementation of the proposal. During those 2 years, trade in the species increases on average by 130% relative to historic rates (Rivalan et al 2007). A 4-year gap passed between the government of Queensland signaling its intent to stop vegetation clearance and enforcement in 2003.…”

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Avoiding Unintended Outcomes from REDD

Venter

Watson

Meijaard

et al. 2010

Conservation Biology

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“…While CITES has been praised overall as a good mechanism to ensure the sustainable use of natural resources (Zimmerman 2003;Warchol 2004;Rivalan et al 2007;Wyatt 2016), it has also been subject to a number of criticisms. Firstly, the regulation and control of wildlife trade depends on different national environmental policies and ethical value judgments, resulting in a lack of harmonisation of national legislation and creating loopholes for criminal exploitation (Sand 1997;Young 2003;Lemieux and Clarke 2009;Bowman 2013;Sollund 2015;Sollund and Maher 2015;Maher and Sollund 2016); in particular, CITES' approach of B(black)listing^species has been criticised as an inherent weakness and a legacy of poor historical understandings of the complexities of biodiversity (Couzens 2013).…”

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CITES, wild plants, and opportunities for crime

Lavorgna

Rutherford²,

Vaglica

et al. 2017

Eur J Crim Policy Res

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The illegal trade in endangered plants damages both the environment and local communities by threatening and destroying numerous species and important natural resources. There is very little research which systematically addresses this issue by identifying specific opportunities for crime. This article presents the results of an interdisciplinary study which brings together criminological and conservation science expertise to identify criminal opportunities in the illegal wild plant trade and suggest strategies in order to prevent and mitigate the problem. Methodologically, the study adapts a crime proofing of legislation approach to the UN Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora and is based on documentary and interview data. Situational crime prevention is used as a framework to provide points for effective intervention.

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Can bans stimulate wildlife trade?

Cited by 130 publications

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Consumers' taste for rarity drives sturgeons to extinction

Consumers' taste for rarity drives sturgeons to extinction

Avoiding Unintended Outcomes from REDD

CITES, wild plants, and opportunities for crime

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