Virtual Dialogues: Community involvement in preventing and combating wildlife, forest and fisheries crime
As a quarter of the world’s land is owned or managed by Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, they must be central to global conservation efforts to tackle international wildlife trade.
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Wildlife crimes touch every country, impacting biodiversity, human health, national security, socio-economic development, as well as lining the pockets of organized criminal groups. Illegal trade in wildlife can lead to the spread of zoonoses, such as SARS-CoV-2 that caused the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speakers:
Dr. Inés Arroyo Quiroz, Programa de Estudios Socioambientales, CRIM - UNAM, Mexico;
Dr. Meredith Gore, Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, USA;
Dr. David Rodriguez Goyes, Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo, Norway
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