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How will the health and economic impacts of coronavirus affect the attitude of governments and publics to the illegal wildlife trade

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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

FCO Areas of research interest coronavirus COVID 19 update May 2020 GOVUK

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Related UKRI funded projects

  • New Ways to Improve the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES): exchanging knowledge to protect wildlife and public health

    The global wildlife trade has been thrust into the international discourse in light of the coronavirus pandemic. As debates surge in regard to whether or not to ban all or part of this lucrative, and many argue necessary...

    Funded by: AHRC

    Lead research organisation: Northumbria University

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project aims to explore the impacts of the illegal wildlife trade on public health and welfare, which is directly relevant to the question.

  • BEaStly Business: Examining the illegal trade in Bears, Eels and Songbirds

    This research project tackles an important but overlooked problem: the illegal wildlife trade (IWT) in European species. Current debates about IWT focus on the trade as a problem of Africa and Asia, and pay attention to ...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Sheffield

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project examines the illegal wildlife trade in European species, which is indirectly related to the question.

  • GCRF_NF94: Identifying and mitigating the impacts of COVID-19 on legal and sustainable wildlife trade in LMICs

    To contain COVID-19, there has been a clampdown on wildlife trade, which is a key source of livelihood and food security for hundreds of millions of people in LMICs. Wildlife markets have been closed, new bans on wildlif...

    Funded by: GCRF

    Lead research organisation: University of Birmingham

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project aims to develop guidelines for regulating wildlife trade in the COVID-19 era, which is indirectly related to the question.

  • Lessons Learned from the Implementation of and Compliance with the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)

    This legal studies research project will generate three case studies of lessons learned in relation to implementation of and compliance with national legislation of member countries to the Convention on the International...

    Funded by: AHRC

    Lead research organisation: Northumbria University

  • Tackling Wildlife Consumption in Urban Tropical Africa

    Across the tropics, which contain the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth, the meat of more than 2000 species of wild animal are consumed (known as 'wildmeat'). In many rural areas, people living close to wildlife rely o...

    Funded by: FLF

    Lead research organisation: University of Kent

  • Learning from observational data to improve protected area management

    Human-caused environmental destruction is a major challenge to the sustainability of life on earth. For effective solutions, we need to learn about damaging behaviours and discover how best to encourage change. Exciting ...

    Funded by: NERC

    Lead research organisation: University of Edinburgh

  • Towards Convivial Conservation: Governing Human-Wildlife Interactions in the Anthropocene

    CON-VIVA is grounded in the premise that conservation is critical to transformations to sustainability but that its practices need to change radically. Conservation can be effective in protecting biodiversity in places, ...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Sheffield

  • iTrade Wildlife - software to detect illegal wildlife sales

    The work to be undertaken will explore the critical pathways needed for the successful commercialisation of the iTrade software and development of a Follow-On proposal. This will be achieved through the use of a business...

    Funded by: NERC

    Lead research organisation: University of Kent

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on detecting illegal wildlife sales and addresses the impact of the illegal wildlife trade, providing insights on legislation, market research, product development, and business aspects.

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