Open access regimes generate a serious conservation risk to harvested species. Nonetheless, the assumption that open-access applies to cases of wildlife farming is rarely tested whilst often assumed. This assumption merits testing. The birdwing butterfly Ornithoptera priamus is employed as a...

It has been alleged or suspected that the legal ivory factories in China launder poached ivory to make carvings. In this research the throughput of tusks across all 37 factories is analysed. The period covers the first allocation of tusks by the Chinese State Forest Administration in July 2009...

The recent and rapid increase in elephant poaching has caused alarm. Noting that shipping containers are the main smuggling technique and that transport costs have been overlooked to date, panel-data models are employed to test this variable's importance. The results support that transport costs...

The recent and rapid increase in elephant poaching has caused international alarm. A fixed-effects panel-data regression model was employed to identify possible causes of this upsurge. Ivory seizures were categorised as worked or raw. These categories were also divided into four weight classes...

Globalisation and International Trade Liberalisation, Continuity and Change edited by Martin Richardson, (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2000), v-xvi + 204pp, ISBN 1-84064-350-1 Equity as a Social Goal, by Cathy Buchanan and Peter Hartley, (NZ Business Roundtable), March 2000. 246pp. ISBN...

Wildlife farming has conservation and development objectives, but is often controversial. If wild animal populations remain in an open-access state, overharvest is likely. This research analyse goliath butterfly farming in the village Gumi, the largest source, in Papua New Guinea. Butterfly...