Can the Scope of Poaching Be Predicted on the Basis of the Existing Parameters

Lavadinović, Vukan; Popović, Zoran S.; Ranković, Nenad; Radosavljević, Aleksandar

doi:10.15679/bjwr.v2i1.23

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“…The illicit nature of poaching has made it hard to explore and challenging to monitor (Yiming et al, 2003;Lavadinović et al, 2012Lavadinović et al, , 2015Montgomery, 2020). Efforts to understand and curtail poaching often suffer from what has been called "disciplinary silo thinking" and fail to depict all components of poaching phenomena.…”

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Mapping the Research Landscape on Poaching: A Decadal Systematic Review

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Poaching is a widespread activity that affects wildlife management goals and undermines conservation efforts worldwide. Despite its complexity, poaching is still commonly addressed by researchers as a one-dimensional phenomenon. To deepen the scientific understanding of poaching, we conducted a systematic literature review in the Web of Science and Scopus databases for the last 10 years, following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses methodology. We found that most studies were carried out in Africa, although 43% of all articles on poaching were published by researchers from the United States and the United Kingdom. The most studied species are elephants (22%), rhinos (19%), wolves (9%), and bears (6%). Although this study identified a wide range of motives and drivers behind poaching activities, more than half of the analyzed articles do not attempt to provide a deeper understanding of this phenomenon. Its understanding of poaching usually does not go beyond the environmental impact of illegal hunting. Our study’s potential limitations may relate to the focus on exclusively English-language articles and, among them, only those discussing mammal, bird, and reptile species. Our findings indicate that global scientific knowledge on poaching in the last 10 years is biased. There is an imbalance between the developed countries that mostly produce knowledge on poaching (usually from Northern America and Europe) and the developing countries commonly an object of interest. This bias is potentially challenging, as the global scientific knowledge on poaching comes from limited experience based on charismatic species and selective case studies. To overcome this gap and develop a deeper understanding of poaching, the scientific community needs to overcome this bias and address illegal hunting wherever it affects the environment and undermines conservation efforts.

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