Comparing illicit trades in wildlife and drugs
Channel: ANU TV
Date: 2013-05-28

In this talk, Dr Tanya Wyatt presents an exploratory study into the similarities, differences, and overlaps between the illegal wildlife trade and the illegal drug trade, using original and literature-based research from the Russian Far East and Western Europe, respectively. 

The purpose of such a comparison is to gain further insight into the illegal wildlife trade through the examination of the more thoroughly studied illegal drug trade. The estimated global size of the markets are given as well as a detailed comparison of the actors involved and the smuggling operations used. This leads to exploration of a possible typology of features that the trades have in common and to discussion of the direct linkages of these two illicit markets.
 
Dr Tanya Wyatt is a Senior Lecturer of Criminology at Northumbria University in Newcastle, United Kingdom. Her research has included studies of the illegal fur and falcon trades in the Russian Far East as well as of the illegal charcoal trade in Cambodia. She is currently a Visiting Fellow on the Transnational Environmental Crime project in the Department of International Relations at Australian National University. She is conducting a comparative study regarding the regulation of wildlife trafficking between Australia, New Zealand and the UK.

This lecture was presented by the Regulatory Institutions Network in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific.

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