[HTML][HTML] Why we must question the militarisation of conservation

R Duffy, F Massé, E Smidt, E Marijnen, B Büscher… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Concerns about poaching and trafficking have led conservationists to seek urgent
responses to tackle the impact on wildlife. One possible solution is the militarisation of …

Illegal wildlife trade and the persistence of “plant blindness”

JD Margulies, LA Bullough, A Hinsley… - Plants, People …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Societal Impact Statement A wide variety of plant species are threatened by illegal wildlife
trade (IWT), and yet plants receive scant attention in IWT policy and research, a matter of …

Conservation and the social sciences: Beyond critique and co‐optation. A case study from orangutan conservation

L Chua, ME Harrison, H Fair, S Milne… - People and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Interactions between conservation and the social sciences are frequently characterized by
either critique (of conservation by social scientists) or co‐optation (of social scientific …

[HTML][HTML] Demand reduction campaigns for the illegal wildlife trade in authoritarian Vietnam: Ungrounded environmentalism

AN Vu - World Development, 2023 - Elsevier
The demand side of illegal wildlife trade (IWT) has received increasing academic, media,
and policy attention for its powerful potential to address the biodiversity extinction crisis. The …

[BOOK][B] The truth about nature: Environmentalism in the era of post-truth politics and platform capitalism

B Büscher - 2020 - books.google.com
How should we share the truth about the environmental crisis? At a moment when even the
most basic facts about ecology and the climate face contestation and contempt …

Conservation and crime convergence? Situating the 2018 London illegal wildlife trade conference

F Massé, H Dickinson, J Margulies… - Journal of Political …, 2020 - nrl.northumbria.ac.uk
The 2018 London Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) Conference was the fourth and biggest
meeting on IWT convened at the initiative of the UK Government. Using a collaborative event …

Empowering women to protect wildlife in former hunting tourism zones: A political ecology of Akashinga, Zimbabwe

M Mkono, R Rastegar, L Ruhanen - Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Anti-poaching is an important component of the tourism management system for
destinations that rely on wildlife as their key attraction. The present paper, broadly grounded …

Eco-war tourism: Affective geographies, colonial durabilities and the militarization of conservation

E Marijnen - Security Dialogue, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This article introduces 'eco-war tourism', a growing niche in which tourists venture into war
zones to seek adventure and 'save'nature from its violent surroundings. In Virunga National …

Harms and the illegal wildlife trade: Political ecology, green criminology and the European eel

L Gutierrez, R Duffy - Critical Criminology, 2024 - Springer
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 …

Agency and Structure in Militarized Conservation and Armed Mobilization: Evidence from Eastern DRC's Kahuzi‐Biega National Park

FOL Simpson, L Pellegrini - Development and Change, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ongoing debates in conservation studies stress the dire consequences of 'fortress' and
'militarized'conservation at violent frontiers. Presenting evidence from Kahuzi‐Biega …