In the relationship between crime and punishment, Malcolm Gladwell hypothesises that, past a certain point, intensification of law enforcement stops having any effect on criminals and may even make crime worse. This is very relevant to a topical issue that has commanded global media attention in...

This document examines the successes and failures of the present Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna (CITES) and analyses its defects. Major changes are needed in the structure of the Treaty to overcome its perceived shortcomings. A Vision for a new treaty is...

This document is the proceedings of a remarkable workshop held in Skukuza, Kruger National Park (KNP) from 17-19 September 2013 and jointly organised by SANParks and Resource Africa. The aim of the workshop was to set the stage for the development of rural community rhino farms on the boundary...

As the Seventeenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES draws closer, there has been a spate of papers from economists and modellers purporting to show that any attempts at resuscitating a legal trade in ivory are too risky to attempt.This paper uses a hybrid model grounded in the...

The recent meteoric rise to prominence of the Animal Rights movement and their powerful influence in the political sphere is a cause for disquiet amongst the more experienced conservationists, practitioners of wildlife management and those who place great weight on the issue of human livelihoods...

This document is based on a review of a debate which took place at Westminster Hall in the UK Houses of Parliament on the 2nd October 2019. The advocacy by Animal Rights parliamentary members was extreme: they used pseudoscientific premises that were largely false and sought to address the...