Behavioural issues in environmental crimes and the need for change
A Talk by Daan van Uhm , Virginia Comolli , Felix Morrow , Mark Gibson , Ulhas Gondhali and Andrey Anisimov
About this Talk
"In this session, Felix Morrow from OceansAsia, will present his paper on illegal sea cucumber fishing, smuggling and fraud in Mexico. After this intervention, Mark Gibson will present the findings of his research, which examines how consumers participate in a harmful songbird trade in Trinidad and Tobago and how interventions may be designed using Neutralization Theory. Ulhas Gondhali will deliver a presentation on the demand for body parts/extracts of wildlife in cultural practices in certain communities and how this drives illicit wildlife trade. Thereafter, Daan van Uhm will introduce the relationship between scarcity, conflict and organized environmental crime in the Darien Gap, the Golden Triangle and eastern edge of the Congo Basin. The session will conclude with a presentation by Andrey Anisimov, who will speak about the key issues which exist in the Irkutsk Oblast, Siberia, promoting illegal logging and providing opportunities for organized criminality to “flourish”.
About The Speakers
Daan van Uhm
Associate Professor at the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology at the Utrecht University
Virginia Comolli
Virginia Comolli is a Senior Expert within GI-TOC’s Asia-Pacific Observatory where she is currently developing a new portfolio on chid sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA) in South East Asia. She is also the research manager for the programme ‘Anticipating and disrupting environmental crime in the globalized economy’.
Felix Morrow
For the past three years, Felix has worked with OceansAsia researching illegal fishing and associated crimes and regulatory issues.
Mark Gibson
Director of the Nurture Nature Campaign, a 13-member NGO coalition seeking to end the harmful wildlife trade in Trinidad and Tobago and the wider Caribbean.