Corruption and poaching in Algeria

Abstract

Wildlife crime refers to any environmental-related crime that involves illegal trade, smuggling, poaching, capture and collection of endangered species or protected wildlife (Brack & Hayman, 2002).

Contemporary wild meat hunting, consumption, and trade in Africa

“…In our first section, articles on changes in the dynamics of hunting, wild meat use and trade explore new knowledge of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on local livelihoods and household wild meat use (Kamogne Tagne et al, 2022), and urban market sales of species purported to be implicated in zoonotic disease spread (Harvey-Carroll et al, 2022). Furthermore, several papers in this section of the Special Issue investigate wild meat use in under-researched regions of north and west Africa, for example assessing the offtakes and impacts of hunting in forestsavannah mosaic landscapes (Sonhaye-Ouyé et al, 2022;Djagoun et al, 2022); highlighting the influence of modern online platforms (Atoussi et al, 2022a) and corruption (Atoussi et al, 2022b) in the current trade of wildlife; and showing that despite significant social and religious change, local wildlife still represents a component of traditional remedies, fetish objects, and artist representations (Ingram et al, 2022).…”