Citation

Brashares JS, Abrahms B, Fiorella KJ, Golden CD, Hojnowski CE, Marsh RA, McCauley DJ, Nuñez TA, Seto K, Withey L. Science 2014; 345(6195): 376-378.

Affiliation

Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

Comment In:

Science 2014;346(6211):819-20.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, American Association for the Advancement of Science)

DOI

10.1126/science.1256734

PMID

25061187

Abstract

U.S. President Obama's recent creation of an interagency task force on wildlife trafficking reflects growing political awareness of linkages between wildlife conservation and national security (1). However, this and similar new initiatives in Europe and Asia promote a “war on poachers” that overlooks the ecological, social, and economic complexity of wildlife-related conflict. Input from multiple disciplines is essential to formulate policies that address drivers of wildlife decline and contexts from which associated conflicts ignite.

This article further discusses the similarities and differences to human trafficking prevention.

Language: en