Law Student Paper Series — Sustainability vs. Overexploitation: A Nexus Between Illegal Wildlife Trafficking and the Climate Crisis
Presented 2/25/21
International and domestic legal communities have long understood the need to incorporate sustainable development into policy practices. Yet, the ongoing dual drivers of biodiversity loss — illegal wildlife trafficking and the climate crisis — show a critical failure in our policy systems. Join Spring A. Gaines, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, as she discusses how national and international policies fail to implement the idea of sustainability into protecting ecosystems that are continuously overexploited to their own detriment, while exploring how this oversight impacts species in different parts of our natural world. A brief Q&A to follow.
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Resources
- Illegal Wildlife Trade: Enhancing Responses to Wildlife Crime and Illegal Trade
- Save the Elephants Anti-Trafficking Project
- The Seahorse Trust: Traditional Medicine Trade
- Pangolin Smuggling: The Next Coronavirus Time Bomb?
- Sustainability vs. Overexploitation: A Nexus Between Illegal Wildlife Trafficking and the Climate Crisis Paper by Spring Gaines (PDF)
- Sustainability vs. Overexploitation_A Nexus Between Illegal Wildlife Trafficking and the Climate Crisis – PPT Presentation (PDF)
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