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1 Typologies in the illegal wildlife trade Jacob Phelps, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) Henry Travers, Imperial College London

2 Distilling actor and network typologies Jacob Phelps, CIFOR Duan Biggs, University of Queensland Edward L. Webb, National University of Singapore

3 Illegal wildlife trade as caricature "poachers", "perpetrators" and "criminals" organised criminal syndicates illegality = invisibility o Assumptions o Simplistic solutions o Incomplete understandings and interventions

4 Taxonomic diversity (CITES 2013)

5 Geographic diversity Asia 6,703 Latin America & Caribbean 4,721 Africa 5,206 Threatened by trade 17,109 species IUCN Red-list assessed species (IUCN 2012)

6 Value chains to consider Value chain complexity (from Phelps 2013)

7 Typology of traders

8 Typology of networks Subsistence Direct-to-consumer Restricted access Gatekeeper Multiple barriers to market

9 Poacher typologies: evidence from Uganda Mariel Harrison, Henry Travers, Dilys Roe, Julia Baker, Geoffrey Mwedde, Andrew Plumptre, Aggrey Rwetsiba and E.J. Milner-Gulland

10 What is driving wildlife crime in Uganda?

11 Poaching for subsistence

12 Poaching in response to injustice

13 Ivory trade in Uganda  Uganda identified as playing important supporting role in illegal ivory trade  Incidence of elephant poaching low but has increased in recent years  Very high PIKE (0.8 – 1.0) at MIKE sites UNEP, CITES, IUCN, TRAFFIC (2013)

14 Who is involved in ivory trade?  Majority of information related to ivory trade comes from key informants or news reports  No evidence relating to the socio-economic profile of poachers  Suggestion that local people recruited to poach elephant  Most ‘evidence’ suggests involvement of corrupt police, customs or even Uganda Wildlife Authority officials

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