Wildlife

The price elasticity of African elephant poaching

This paper estimates the elasticity of elephant poaching with respect to prices. To identify the supply curve, the authors observe that ivory is a storable commodity and hence subject to Hotelling's no-arbitrage condition. The price of gold, one of many commodities used as stores of value, is thus used as an instrument for ivory prices.

Publication Date: 
12/02/2018
Quy-Toan Do, Andrei A. Levchenko, Lin Ma, Julian Blanc, Holly Dublin, Tom Milliken
The World Bank
Tags:
Elephant, Poaching, Africa, Wildlife Trade, Wildlife, Illegal Trade
Wildlife

An assessment of South African dried abalone Haliotis midae consumption and trade in Hong Kong

A new TRAFFIC report reveals a thriving trade in poached South African abalone Haliotis midae in Hong Kong, where the marine mollusc is considered a delicacy in Cantonese cuisine.

Publication Date: 
09/02/2018
Wilson Lau
TRAFFIC
Tags:
Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, Hong Kong, South Africa, Illegal Trade, Poaching
Wildlife

Gabon fights elephant poachers with hi-tech tracker collars

Gabon's national parks agency is bringing hi-tech to the equatorial forests of central Africa in a bid to save thousands of elephants from well-drilled and armed poachers

Publication Date: 
08/02/2018
PHYS
Tags:
Wildlife, Poaching, Elephant, Illegal Trade, Africa
Wildlife

Scientists deploy DNA analysis and radiocarbon dating in latest salvo against ivory trafficking

Scientists are analyzing ivory samples confiscated from the U.S. retail market to help reduce elephant poaching.

Publication Date: 
06/02/2018
Mongabay
Tags:
Wildlife, Poaching, Illegal Trade, Elephant, United States Of America (US), Africa
Mining

Sierra Leone: Rampant Illegal Sand Mining At Ebola/Mudslide Cemetery

Volunteers at the Ebola/Mudslide victims' cemetery at Pa Loko village in the outskirts of Waterloo, Western Area Rural District, have expressed fear that rampant illegal sand mining currently takin

Publication Date: 
06/02/2018
All Africa
Tags:
Mining, Sand, Illegal Trade, Sierra Leone, Ebola Virus Disease (Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever), Africa
Water Pollution

Submit report on Phalguni river pollution: district admin to CMFRI

Deputy Commissioner Sasikanth Senthil said that the district administration has written to CMFRI, to look into the reason for the increase in pollution in Phalguni river.

Publication Date: 
06/02/2018
Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
Tags:
Water Pollution, Karnataka, River Pollution, Illegal Trade, Sand, Mining
Wildlife

Esmond Bradley Martin: Ivory investigator killed in Kenya

One of the world's leading investigators of the illegal trade in ivory and rhino horn has been killed in Kenya.

Publication Date: 
06/02/2018
BBC (UK)
Tags:
Wildlife, Poaching, Environmentalists, Kenya, Africa, Rhinoceros, Elephant, Illegal Trade
Wildlife

Nigeria: Thailand Seizes Nigeria's Smuggled Ivory As Rescued Chimpanzees Face Uncertain Future

Ivory worth 15 million baht ($469,800) smuggled from Nigeria has been seized in Thailand, customs officials said.Three elephant tusks and 31 ivory pieces weighing a combined 148 kilograms were seiz

Publication Date: 
05/02/2018
All Africa
Tags:
Wildlife, Illegal Trade, Poaching, Nigeria, Thailand, Africa
Mining

Despite ban, illegal mining goes on in Neugal river

Despite the HP High Court and National Green Tribunal (NGT) ban on illegal mining in the Neugal river, the menace continues unabated in the area.

Publication Date: 
05/02/2018
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Himachal Pradesh, Sand, Mining, Rivers, High Court, National Green Trbunal (NGT), Illegal Trade
Wildlife

Mapping motivations: combatting consumption of illegal wildlife in Viet Nam

A new study summarises the motivations behind the use of endangered wildlife products in Viet Nam, with an ultimate goal of helping behavioural science practitioners develop messages and initiatives to help reduce their consumption.

Publication Date: 
31/01/2018
TRAFFIC
Tags:
Wildlife Trade, Illegal Trade, Vietnam, Rhinoceros, Elephant, Wildlife

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