Description |
1 online resource (ix, 32 pages) |
Series |
RUSI occasional paper, 2397-0286 |
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RUSI occasional paper. 2397-0286
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Contents |
Executive summary. -- Introduction. -- I. Financial responses to wildlife crime: the current picture. -- II. Financial investigation: a new front against wildlife crime? -- III. Following the money: challenges and opportunities. -- Conclusions |
Summary |
Wildlife crime is not simply a crime against wildlife: it is organised financial crime conducted on an industrial and transnational scale for profit. For other crime types, financial investigation is viewed as central to identifying not only the individual criminal but also their network of facilitators. Yet where wildlife crime is concerned, financial investigation is not employed on anything approaching a systematic basis. This paper argues that there is an urgent need for those charged with disrupting wildlife crime to add a financial dimension to their approach. The paper refers primarily - but not exclusively - to East Africa, and is the final output of a year-long project researching wildlife-linked illicit financial flows in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. In East Africa and across the supply chain, this paper advocates for greater use of financial tools to disrupt the accomplices, facilitators and support networks of those engaged in this crime. The paper makes the following recommendations to reach this objective, focusing specifically on the changes required to respond to the financial motives of those involved |
Notes |
"September 2017." |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
"This paper was funded by the UK government through the Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) Challenge Fund." |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (RUSI, viewed September 27, 2017) |
Subject |
Wildlife crimes -- Finance -- Prevention
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Wildlife crime investigation.
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Forensic accounting.
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International crimes -- Prevention
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Forensic accounting.
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Wildlife crime investigation.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Keatinge, Tom, author
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Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, publisher.
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