1st Edition

Is CITES Protecting Wildlife? Assessing Implementation and Compliance

By Tanya Wyatt Copyright 2021
192 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book assesses the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), examining both implementation and compliance. Humans are causing a biodiversity crisis, where 1 million species are facing extinction. Species are dying, in no small part, because they are overexploited, poached and trafficked and CITES is the main international instrument designed... Read more

1. The Biodiversity Crisis

2. How does CITES work?

3. Methodology

4. CITES Implementation: the big picture

5. CITES Compliance: the big picture

6. Lessons Learned and Best Practice from the Case Studies

7. The Future

References

Biography

Tanya Wyatt is Professor of Criminology in the Department of Social Sciences, Northumbria University, UK. She is the author/editor of numerous books, including Green Crime in Mexico (2018), Green Criminology in the 21st Century (2016), and Wildlife Trafficking (2013).