Effective Use of IWT Evidence - Evidence to Action #Research4IWT18
Channel: ICCS Oxford
Date: 26/10/2018

Evidence to Action 2018
Research to Address the Illegal Wildlife Trade

Panel organiser:
- E.J. Milner-Gulland, University of Oxford

Speakers:
- Ling Xu, Acting Head of TRAFFIC China and WWF China-Wildlife Trade Programme
- Edson Gandiwa, Professor of Wildlife Conservation and Management and Dean, Chinhoyi University of Technology
- Rosaleen Duffy, Professor of International Politics, University of Sheffield
- Scott Roberton, Director for Counter-Wildlife Trafficking, WCS Asia program

Nearly 300 experts working to address the complex illegal wildlife trade (IWT) issue worldwide joined us on the 9th October 2018, in London, to discuss how we can collaborate and address research gaps to ensure the best evidence is informing action and policy (http://www.illegalwildlifetrade.net/iwt18event/). A large delegation of the Evidence to Action organisers and presenters were then invited to attend the UK government’s London Conference on the Illegal Wildlife Trade 2018 to further represent research and help close the divide between evidence and policy. A summary of the research evidence on the trade’s scale, impacts and complexity, the remaining evidence gaps and how we can move forward efficiently following the events, can be found in the Evidence to Action Briefing Note (https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/35ndz/).

Evidence to Action Steering Committee
- E.J. Milner-Gulland, Oxford Martin Programme on the Illegal Wildlife Trade, University of Oxford
- Laure Cugnière, Oxford Martin Programme on the Illegal Wildlife Trade, University of Oxford
- Rosaleen Duffy, BIOSEC, University of Sheffield
- David Robert, Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent
- Jacob Phelps, Lancaster Environment Centre, University of Lancaster
- Paul De Ornellas, Zoological Society of London
- Matthew Lowton, Zoological Society of London