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Prevention of Poaching
Frank van Langevelde and Ignas Heitkönig
Herbert Prins, Henjo de Knegt, Mina Abosetta
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• Why bother about wildlife crime?
• Ways to prevent poaching
• Development of Smart Park
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Why bother about wildlife crime?
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Species have an ecological function in ecosystems
• Large animals (elephant, tiger, rhino) often have
more than proportional impact
• Their decrease changes the landscape
Keystone species
Keystone is essential
support at top of arch
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Example 1: Elephant as architects
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Asner and Levick (2012)
Trees that disappeared
between 2008-2010
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Asner and Levick (2012)
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Impact elephant increase forage availability
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Elephant density (#/km2)
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Example 2: Rhino as bulldozer
Grazing lawns: large grazers
facilitate smaller grazers
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Waldram et al. (2008)
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Waldram et al. (2008)
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Example 3: Seed dispersers
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Poaching of keystone species: cascading effects on ecosystems
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Why bother about wildlife crime?
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Why bother about wildlife crime?
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Reproduction rate (number
of young per year):
6-8% of 20,000 = 1200-1600
young per year
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• Enormous efforts resulted in slower increase or even decrease?
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Wildlife crime: high profit – low risk business
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How to reduce wildlife crime:
• Stop poaching
• Stop trafficking
• Stop demand
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Assumption: when people are poor and no job → easily
attracted to crime
In developed countries is less crime than in poor countries?
• Wildlife crime is organized crime
• Top of crime chain in developed countries
• “Risky” part of crime is done by relatively poor people (that
are found in all societies)
Proposition: we have to attack the top of crime chain (big
bosses, middle men and corrupt officials)
Poverty alleviation
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• Ultimate solution
• But takes a lot of time
• We do not have this time!
Stop demand
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• CITES is international treaty to protect wildlife against
over-exploitation, and to prevent international trade from
threatened species
• Because of CITES: illegal trade & illegal trade routes
• CITES is inadequate (because of loopholes in laws):
requires coherent set of laws between countries
Can we stop smuggling of
drugs?
Stop trafficking
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Legalization of trade in wildlife
Pros:
• Presumably reduces poaching
• Increases revenues that can be used for conservation
• Helps people out of poverty
Together with
• Legal supply (breeding rhino horn)
• Trade regulation
Cons:
• Stimulates laundering (Russian caviar)
• Increases global trafficking
• Likely increases crime
• Trade regulation depends on capacity to monitor and
enforce restrictions
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Analogy legalizing prostitution
Prostitution is legal and regulated
In last few years, lot of brothels and "windows" closed because
of suspected criminal activity
In 1997 survey (Weitzer 2000)
• 73% of Dutch citizens favoured legalization of brothels
• 74% said that prostitution was an “acceptable job”
Authorities fear that business is out of control:
"We've realized this is no longer about small-scale entrepreneurs,
but that big crime organizations are involved here in trafficking
women, drugs, killings and other criminal activities“ (Job Cohen,
former mayor of Amsterdam)
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Stop poaching: prevent that animals
are shot or caught
• Impede poachers
• Involve local communities
• Reduce value wildlife
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Dynamic “game” where poachers are continually
responding to advances (e.g. in technologies)
Stop poaching: prevent that animals
are shot or caught
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Red Queen Effect
“Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least
twice as fast as that”
from Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871)by Lewis Carroll
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Impede poachers
Protect areas: fencing
Detect poachers quickly: patrolling intensely
Translocation
Technological innovations: drones
Involve local communities
Provide alternative income: alleviate poverty
Make local community stakeholders
Increase ‘eyes’ and ‘ears’ by informer network
Reduce value wildlife
Flooding the market
Decrease value of wildlife
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Impede poachers
Protect areas: fencing
Detect poachers quickly: patrolling intensely
Translocation
Technological innovations: drones
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• For large parks like Kruger National Park: many fences (> 1000
km)
• Limits animal movement
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Militarization of wildlife protection
• Kruger since 7-8 years: increased presence of army
• Still poaching is going on
• From 2014: defended like a fortress
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• Very stressful
• Too many animals to apply it effectively
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Crashes are frequent, equipment breaks down
Limited by rain or high wind
Detecting poachers is difficult from the air (their can hide)
Trade-off between height of flight and precision
Battery problems
Not allowed in many places
At the moment: extended eyes of the rangers (few km, mainly during day)
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Involve local communities
Provide alternative income: alleviate poverty
Make local communities stakeholders
Increase ‘eyes’ and ‘ears’ by informer network
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How effective is making local communities stakeholders in wildlife protection?
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Acornhoek 40,000 people
Bushbuckridge Local Municipality 550,000 people
How to make them stakeholders in wildlife protection?
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Reduce value wildlife
Flooding the market
Decrease value of wildlife
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When demand is high or inelastic (such as products without
acceptable substitutes) = rhino horn & ivory
At low supply: consumers are willing to pay the price
Increase in price does not discourage consumption
Restricting supply (trade restrictions) will raise the price, but do
little to lower demand
Higher price is not effective
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Many wildlife products are luxury goods characterized by high
income elasticity
Income-elastic products: demand increases as incomes rise
Rising consumer income is frequently cited as primary driver
of increased demand for wildlife products in South-East Asia
(TRAFFIC, 2008)
Now: supply is small, demand is high
Increases in supply will increase demand
Lower price is effective?
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Tagging and tracking horns
• Very stressful
• Many animals
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Reduce poaching
• No single solution is the panacea
• Integration of methods
• Smart Park
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Smart Park: early-warning system to detect intrusion of
poachers
Through combining high-tech multi-sensor network with animal
ecology
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Ideal system to prevent poaching
• Early warning
• Non-invasive
• Covering large area
• Continuous monitoring (day and night)
• Not labour intensive
• Combination of approaches
• Easy to use
• Robust (heat, dust, baboons, elephants)
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Detection of environmental hazards using animals
Animals as sentinels
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When animals behave differently
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Animal as sentinels: detection of anomalies in behaviour
Crowd motion analysis
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• Design of sensors: low power
• Wireless networks
• Adaptive behaviour: no measuring in absence of activity
• Big data analytics
Smart Park
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Reduce poaching
• Wildlife crime seem to decline in Kruger National Park
(South Africa) due to anti-poaching efforts
• Replacing the problem
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• Poaching is world-wide problem, regardless efforts of rangers,
police, army, …
• No single approach can prevent wildlife crime
• Reduce demand = takes time
• Reduce trafficking = limited success
• Something has to be done NOW
Step forward
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