Whilst drug trafficking has been a concern for several decades, wildlife trafficking has only
fairly recently garnered international attention. Often media coverage of wildlife trafficking …

The global illegal wildlife trade has been anecdotally linked to other serious crimes, such as
fraud, corruption, and money laundering, as well as the cross-border trafficking of drugs …

Eight years to the day, I was sitting in an office in the Department of Politics and International
Relations on the campus of The Australian National University finishing the first edition of …

An exploration of the scale, practical reality, and future implications of the growing
integration of biodiversity conservation with global security concerns “There are few keener …

A growing global human population, habitat conversion, and the indiscriminate exploitation
of natural resources have created unsustainable demands on nature, resulting in …

The last quarter of a century saw the international political community make concerted efforts
to regulate global caviar trade and prevent illegal harvesting of critically endangered …

Illegal wildlife trade is a global threat to biodiversity, but its drivers and impacts and ways to
combat it vary by taxa. News media framing of instances of illegal trade provides a novel …

In this article we develop a geopolitical ecology of foreign conservation assistance. While
the literature on the political nature of foreign assistance writ large highlights how …

This paper integrates political ecology and green criminology to examine the critical
endangerment of the European eel. Using a harms-based approach, our research suggests …

The ways in which poaching economies and militarized responses to shut them down
intersect with local gender norms and dynamics remain underexamined. We address this by …