Economic benefits of wildlife trade
Wildlife trade is any sale or exchange of wild animal and plant resources by people. Wildlife trade is an issue at the heart of the tension between biodiversity conservation and human development. Whether for medicine, construction, food or culture, a huge proportion of our trade, economy and way of life is entirely reliant upon wildlife products. For communities empowered by effective and equitable governance systems, the benefits derived from trading wildlife products can catalyse community investments in nature conservation, law enforcement and stewardship of wildlife. Wildlife trade can enhance the way societies and communities value nature, tipping the balance in favour of protecting it and against converting it for ‘economically productive’ uses. The illegal wildlife trade (IWT) has a negative impact on African economies and their development. It destroys ecosystems and biodiversity, undermines institutions, and channels scarce state resources away from critical social programmes. In Africa, Elephant poaching alone is estimated to cost between £3-5 billion per year in lost natural capital. Trading Nature: the contribution of wildlife trade management to sustainable livelihoods and the Millennium Development Goals (PDF, 3.1 MB) shows that wildlife trade offers opportunities to the poor and benefits to local communities, but these are threatened when illegal or unsustainable trade is allowed to flourish.
Abstract. Wildlife trade is a multibillion dollar industry that is driving species toward extinction. Of >31,500 terrestrial bird, mammal, amphibian, and squamate reptile species, ~18% (N = 5579) are traded globally.Trade is strongly phylogenetically conserved, and the hotspots of this trade are concentrated in the biologically diverse tropics.
Conservation impacts of wildlife trade. 3. 2.1. The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) report Beyond economic benefits, wildlife trade. Jun 15, 2015 Economic Trade. There were a lot of topics covered at the AGM of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) last week. In a previous Oct 11, 2018 Combating illegal wildlife trade and further pursuing conservation-development models could help generate considerable economic benefits INTRODUCTION: Illegal trade of wildlife has been recognised as an important driver of biodiversity loss. In many quarters the use of legal markets has been legal wildlife trade action to enhance benefits from sustainable, legal wildlife of our trade, economy and way of life is entirely reliant upon wildlife products.
Much of the wildlife trade is illegal, which makes it in any of three welfare impact categories—killed on site; habitat protection, economic development, increasing
NGOs and governments now face a race against time to reduce demand for wildlife trade, particularly in Asia, as well as to equip those on the frontline to fight a well-armed enemy. Even going by the lowest estimates, wildlife crime is currently the 5th largest illicit transnational activity in the world, after counterfeiting and the illegal trafficking of drugs, people, and oil. Illegal wildlife trade is estimated to be a multibillion-dollar business involving the unlawful harvest of and trade in live animals and plants or parts and products derived from them. Wildlife is traded as skins, leather goods or souvenirs; as food or traditional medicine; as pets, and in many other forms. wildlife. They also note that a variety of factors associated with economic growth, trade expansion and the development of infrastructure are believed to be the primary drivers of the market availability of wildlife. The study notes, for example, the influence of the economic growth of India and China both in Weighing the benefits of building a wildlife economy. December 17, 2019. The Global Environment Facility is one of the largest public funders in the fight against the illegal wildlife trade. It has allocated $168 million over its new funding cycle - known as GEF-7 - for work in this area, up from $131 million over the previous four year Wildlife trafficking reduces the economic, social and environmental benefits of wildlife, while generating billions of dollars in illicit revenues each year, contributing to the illegal economy, fueling instability and undermining security. Global illegal wildlife trade is estimated to generate billions of dollars annually.
wildlife. They also note that a variety of factors associated with economic growth, trade expansion and the development of infrastructure are believed to be the primary drivers of the market availability of wildlife. The study notes, for example, the influence of the economic growth of India and China both in
Oct 31, 2018 food security and economic benefits for the communities connected to these species and their ecosystems. Wildlife TRAPS is a program of specific characteristics and its economic benefits which are considerably higher than those from wildlife viewing. Finally, issues related to wildlife trade are Wildlife trafficking is not just about saving animals from extinction, as vitally important as that is. It is also about promoting economic development and the rule of
The illegal wildlife trade (IWT) significantly impacts African economies by destroying and corroding natural, human and social capital stocks. This hinders the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and has an impact on national budgets.
Illegal trade in renewable nat- ural resources has many more financial, economic , social, and political impacts that are not captured in the Table 1 financial figures. May 29, 2013 The illegal trade of animals or animal parts has become one of the most The programme had a big impact and we immediately saw an Negative impacts of alien species introductions caused by wildlife trafficking are It can result in severe economic losses, which particularly affect developing Dec 16, 2014 CITES regulates international trade in endangered species and their near wild animals to receive direct economic benefits from the wildlife. Countries' efforts to manage their resources sustainably are undermined, resulting in economic losses and missed opportunities;. •. Illegal wildlife trade Apr 22, 2019 The Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund is backing projects that will tackle robbing communities of the great economic benefits of wildlife, Mar 7, 2018 The researchers hope the findings can lead to a better understanding of the social and economic benefits of wildlife trading to people in
Oct 6, 2017 The multimillion-dollar legal wildlife trade in species originating from dissociation between economic benefits and wildlife/natural habitats, Nov 1, 2016 A Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) ranger stacks elephant tusks, part of an off and sold by organized crime syndicates, usually to consumers in Asia. economic sense even when looking at just this one benefit stream," study Aug 19, 2016 Combating the surge of illegal wildlife trade (IWT) devastating wildlife range of financial and nonfinancial social and economic benefits and Jun 7, 2017 Since the country's economy relies on wildlife tourism as one of its sources of income, poaching has economic consequences. The negative Sep 15, 2016 The trade in wildlife products can represent an important source of income for framework, based on simple concepts from the economics literature, that An alternative is to promote the benefits of the farm-bush matrix (from Jul 23, 2013 Global trade in illegal wildlife is a potentially vast illicit economy, estimated to Wildlife trafficking appears disproportionately to impact parts of.