Open AccessPoachers, Pirates and Wildlife Crime: Improving coordination of the global response
Author(s) -
Olga Biegus,
Christian Bueger
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
sa crime quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2413-3108
pISSN - 1991-3877
DOI - 10.17159/2413-3108/2017/v0n60a1724
Subject(s) - poaching , wildlife , corporate governance , core (optical fiber) , political science , criminology , geography , business , sociology , engineering , ecology , telecommunications , finance , biology
This article aims at identifying how the global response to poaching can be improved and what role South Africa might play in it. To do so, we examine the emerging global wildlife crime regime and the challenges it faces. To offer an understanding of how governance could be improved, we ask how the success in curbing another transnational crime can serve as an example of international coordination. Through a comparison, we aim at identifying core dimensions by which the coordination of counter-poaching can be improved. Our conclusion stresses the importance of a more focussed, inclusive and experimental account. We end in outlining a number of core issues that South Africa should start to consider in its policies towards wildlife crime.