The marketplace management of illegal elixirs: illicit consumption of rhino horn

Truong, V. Dao; Dang, Nam V. H.; Hall, C. Michael

doi:10.1080/10253866.2015.1108915

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“…; Truong et al . ). Wildlife and their parts can have ornamental uses, including as pets (Wyatt ; Pires ), can serve as cultural objects (De Angelis ), and/or represent high‐value gifts or investments (eg Gao and Clark ; Truong et al .…”

Section: Characterizing Iwt Actorsmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Wildlife and their parts can have ornamental uses, including as pets (Wyatt ; Pires ), can serve as cultural objects (De Angelis ), and/or represent high‐value gifts or investments (eg Gao and Clark ; Truong et al . ). Wildlife may be involved in activities where harvest itself is a recreational or cultural act (Muth and Bowe ).…”

Section: Characterizing Iwt Actorsmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…However, thousands of other species are also used as medicines globally (Laird et al 2010;Nijman et al 2012a), and many taxa have other, complex social meanings and diverse uses (Courchamp et al 2006;Truong et al 2015). Wildlife and their parts can have ornamental uses, including as pets (Wyatt 2009;Pires 2012), can serve as cultural objects (De Angelis 2012), and/or represent high-value gifts or investments (eg Gao and Clark 2014;Truong et al 2015). Wildlife may be involved in activities where harvest itself is a recreational or cultural act (Muth and Bowe 1998).…”

Section: Wildlife Consumersmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Tools and terms for understanding illegal wildlife trade

Phelps

Biggs

Webb

2016

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Illegal wildlife trade (IWT) is a global conservation issue that threatens thousands of species, including fish, fungi, medicinal plants, and charismatic mammals. Despite widespread recognition of the problem, debates on the science and policy of IWT generally concentrate on a few high‐profile species (eg rhinoceros, tigers, elephants) and often overlook or conflate complex IWT products, actors, networks, and contexts. A poor understanding of IWT is aggravated by the lack of systematic vocabulary and conceptual tools with which to analyze complex phenomena in a more structured way. We synthesize the available evidence on IWT across taxa and contexts into a typology‐based framework that considers (1) the diversity of wildlife products; (2) the roles of various actors involved with IWT, including harvesters, intermediaries, and consumers; and (3) common IWT network configurations. We propose ways in which these tools can inform structured analyses of IWT, to help ensure more nuanced, appropriate, targeted, and effective responses to illegal wildlife harvest, trade, and use.

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Section: Characterizing Iwt Actorsmentioning

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Section: Wildlife Consumersmentioning

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Tools and terms for understanding illegal wildlife trade

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Webb

2016

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“…The social stigma of using rhino horn remains low (Biggs et al 2013), as a pervasive view of "animals … as commodities that exist to be exploited" persists in Vietnamese society (Rademeyer 2012, 285). The high end-market price of rhino horn helped to elevate it to a luxury good, enhancing its allure as a status symbol among the newly wealthy Vietnamese (Amin et al 2006;Conrad 2012;Truong, Dang, and Hall 2015).…”

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Subversive mobilities

Cohen

2017

Applied Mobilities

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There has been an inherent bias in studies of "mobility regimes" toward the perspective of the authorities. This article suggests the concept of "subversive mobilities" to offer a novel perspective on the construct of mobilities regimes, by stressing the ways such regimes are penetrated by adversaries through diverse routes and practices, despite the regimes' various control and defense mechanisms. We investigate how "smugglers" make use of weaknesses in existing mobility regimes to facilitate their subversion, using three case studies of subversive mobilities, smuggling of Rohingya migrants, of Colombian cocaine and of South African rhino horns, to substantiate the potential of our approach. The subversive mobilities of all three case studies reveal some common traits: a multiplicity of routes and means of travel, informal personal networks based on trust and retribution rather than formal organization, and interconnected series of assemblages of differently involved actors. We claim that the continued success of "smugglers" to subvert the existing mobility regimes is their greater flexibility: they tend to be pro-active, initiating new routes and means of movement, and the cooperation of illicit and legitimate role-bearers, while the mobility regimes are mostly reactive, giving the former at least a temporary advantage over the latter. Our approach leads to a more inclusive and dynamic view of mobilities regimes, and enables a better understanding of why the "smuggling" of goods and "trafficking" in people is increasingly successful, despite the efforts of mobilities regimes to block these activities.

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“…For example, expensive advertising campaigns in China that attempt to discourage the consumption of rhino horn assume that the Chinese consume rhino horn as a way to broadcast their success in life, similar to why the Vietnamese consume rhino horn (Truong, Dang, & Hall (2016)). If, in reality, however, Chinese consumers buy rhino horn because they believe it will make them healthy, a campaign focused on social status may not be as effective as expected.…”

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confidence: 99%

Automatic Acquisition and Sustainable Use of Political-Ecological Data

Haas

2018

Data Science Journal

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The sustainable management of anthropogenically-impacted ecosystems will require ongoing monitoring and advocacy by people across the globe. To this end, automatic methods are developed herein for acquiring several types of such political-ecological data. On the political side, a method is developed for gathering news articles about human actions that affect the ecosystem along with a method for identifying themes in social media that concern the consumption of an ecosystem's products. On the ecosystem side, a method is derived for estimating wildlife abundance from purchasable high-resolution satellite images. A simple website architecture is described for holding this data and enabling its use in developing sustainable conservation policies. A rhino conservation website illustrates this architecture. A fundamental contradiction between the desire for open data on the locations of endangered flora and fauna versus the need to hide these locations from poachers is addressed through a new security protocol that enables the secure distribution of sensitive ecosystem data to trusted data consumers.

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The marketplace management of illegal elixirs: illicit consumption of rhino horn

Cited by 53 publications

References 44 publications

Tools and terms for understanding illegal wildlife trade

Tools and terms for understanding illegal wildlife trade

Subversive mobilities

Automatic Acquisition and Sustainable Use of Political-Ecological Data

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