The objective of this systematic map is to provide a collated summary of the existing body of literature addressing the effectiveness of interventions implemented to directly protect wildlife from illegal harming whether by harvest as a resource or control/persecution reasons, detect and sanction rule-breakers, and interdict and control illegal wildlife commodities (i.e., counter-wildlife crime interventions). Staff from the United States Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the CEBC collaborated to develop this question in the context of the wild plant and animal species targeted by the agency’s international grant programs and law enforcement activities. The ultimate goal is to better understand and help build the evidence base that supports grant-making programs and decisions, and to shed light on a topic of increasing policy relevance and attention. This question is also of broader relevance as governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) worldwide with a focus on nature conservation routinely make decisions about investment of limited resources with goals of having maximal conservation benefit.
Project Collaborators
Trina Rytwinski – Carleton University, Canada
Siri Öckerman – Carleton University, Canada
Jessica Taylor – Carleton University, Canada
Joe Bennett – Carleton University, Canada
Steve Cooke – Carleton University, Canada
Adrienne Smith – Carleton University, Canada
Jessica Reid – Carleton University, Canada
Caitlyn Proctor – Carleton University, Canada
Matt Muir – U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, United States of America
Jennie Miller – U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service & George Mason University, United States of America
Amy Pokempner – U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, United States of America
Heather Slaughter – U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Office of Law Enforcement, United States of America
Meredith Gore – University of Maryland, United States of America
Emma Stokes – Wildlife Conservation Society (Central Africa), Gabon
Inés Arroyo Quiroz – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México
Stephen Pires – Florida International University, United States of America
Dwi Adhiasto – Wildlife Conservation Society (Indonesia), Indonesia
Wai Yee Lam – Panthera, Malaysia
Robert Pickles – Panthera, Malaysia
Andrew Lemieux – Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, Netherlands
Project status – In progress
We are still in the process of collecting literature for this project. If you have any relevant materials please get in touch with the CEBC contact below.
CEBC Contact – Trina.Rytwinski@carleton.ca
Canadian Centre for Evidence-Based Conservation 