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Resources

General resources

Five case studies of community-based approaches to tackling IWT in Tanzania
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Date published: September 2020

Author(s): People not Poaching

Compilation of People not Poaching case studies from Tanzania
Conservation enforcement: Insights from people incarcerated for wildlife crimes in Nepal

There are long‐standing debates about the effectiveness and social impacts of enforcement‐based conservation, particularly as investments into enforcement increase in response to growing alarm about Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT).

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Date published: December 2019

Author(s): Paudel K., Potter G. and J Phelps

Publisher: Conservation Science and Practice

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African elephant poaching rates correlate with local poverty, national corruption and global ivory price

Poaching is contributing to rapid declines in elephant populations across Africa.

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Date published: May 2019

Author(s): Severin Hauenstein, Mrigesh Kshatriya, Julian Blanc, Carsten F. Dormann & Colin M. Beale

Publisher: Nature Communications

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African elephant poaching rates correlate with local poverty, national corruption and global ivory price

Poaching is contributing to rapid declines in elephant populations across Africa.

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Date published: May 2019

Author(s): Severin Hauenstein, Mrigesh Kshatriya, Julian Blanc, Carsten F. Dormann & Colin M. Beale

Publisher: Nature Communications

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Community buy-in stamps out elephant poaching in Zambian park

The North Luangwa Conservation Programme, a partnership between the Frankfurt Zoological Society and the country’s Department of Parks and Wildlife, has been around since the late 1980s and has focused its efforts on community involvement in stopping poachers from going after elephants, rhinos an

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Date published: April 2019

Author(s): John C. Cannon

Publisher: Mongabay

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African Elephant Action Plan
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Date published: March 2010

Author(s): Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe

Publisher: CITES

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Strategies, policies and legislation

Important Government documents relating to IWT

Action Plan for the Management of Transfrontier Elephant Conservation Corridors in West Africa
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Date published: June 2003

Publisher: IUCN,SSC,AfESG

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Action Plan for the Management of Elephants in the Ziama-Wenegisi Transfrontier Corridor
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Date published: May 2006

Author(s): Lamine Sebogo

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Strategy for the Conservation of West African Elephants
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Date published: March 2005

Author(s): WWF, CMS, SSC, IUCN

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Central African Elephant Conservation Strategy
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Date published: December 2005

Author(s): IUCN

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