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How I Trafficked Animals Illegally | Informer

https://youtu.be/wQctu__AGEI\

6 minutes

 

Bad Goods : Inside the Global Underground Wildlife Trafficking Market

https://youtu.be/f0fUlWJ8VsE

25 minutes

 

Inside the Rhino Poaching Trade | Bad Blood

https://youtu.be/-tM1YyD0AV0

15 minutes

 

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Combating Wildlife Trade: Toward an Integrated Approach (Podcast)

Poaching, trafficking, and illegal harvest are all terms used in discussing wildlife crime. While they refer to different actions along the supply chain, these terms are all central to the issue of non-compliance with rules and regulations put in place to support the long-term survival of plant and animal species. Wildlife crime has cascading negative effects on wildlife and people: it reduces biodiversity and can damage entire ecosystems, threatens livelihoods in rural communities, weakens global security, and robs countries that rely on wildlife for tourism of assets and revenue. This podcast is a follow up to our broadcast, “Combating Wildlife Crime: Toward an Integrated Approach”, which provides an overview of the need for and application of social science to holistically address wildlife crime. In this podcast, Dr. Meredith Gore, Associate Professor in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University, and Dr. Christine Browne, Human Dimensions Team Lead at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Natural Resource Program Center, delve deeper into social science considerations for this topic, including the needs, methods, the benefits for addressing this national and global conservation priority.

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World Environment Day 2016: UNEP-INTERPOL Report on Environmental Crime

A new UNEP-INTERPOL report entitled "The Rise of Environmental Crime" is being launched on World Environment Day 2016 indicating that environmental crime is up by 26% since 2014.

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Community Involvement in preventing and combating wildlife, forest, and fisheries crime

Every country is touched by wildlife crimes. They impact biodiversity, human health, national security, socio-economic development, and line the pockets of organized criminal groups. Illegal trade in wildlife can lead to the spread of zoonoses, such as SARS-CoV-2 that caused the COVID-19 pandemic. As a quarter of the world’s land is owned or managed by communities, they must be central to global conservation efforts to tackle international wildlife trade.

 

This webinar was organized by the International Union of Conservation for Nature's Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy. The webinar is in Spanish and English.

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Laboratory for Integrative Biodiversity Research You Tube Channel on Neglected Species in Wildlife Trade

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Combating Wildlife Trade: Toward an Integrated Approach

Combating Wildlife Crime: Toward an Integrated Approach (Broadcast)

Overview

Around the world, poaching and trafficking of illegal wildlife products is rising. And even though awareness has grown and interventions have increased to address the issue, wildlife populations threatened by this illegal activity continue to decline. Human behavior, specifically non-compliance with wildlife laws and purchasing behaviors, are central to this conservation concern. A key strategy for targeting non-compliance is law enforcement, which has improved the effectiveness of conservation efforts in many contexts. However, a multi-pronged approach is needed not only to address illegal behavior, but also to reduce the demand for illegal wildlife products. Learn from our expert panelists how you can integrate social sciences to create successful interventions.

Who should attend this broadcast: Law enforcement, project managers, resource managers, visitor services professionals, park rangers, outdoor recreational planners, and anyone whose resource management efforts would be enhanced or supported by learning about state-of-the art resources for the human dimensions of natural resource conservation.

Presenters: Meredith Gore, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Fisheries & Wildlife, Michigan State University; Daphne Carlson-Bremer, DVM, MPVM, PhD, Branch Chief, Combating Wildlife Trafficking Strategy and Partnerships, USFWS, International Affairs; and Craig Tabor, Special Agent in Charge, Intelligence Unit, USFWS, Office of Law Enforcement.

Host: Christine Browne, PhD, Human Dimensions Team Lead, USFWS, Natural Resource Program Center

Recorded June 19, 2019.

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Module_Riffel 2009_Management of harvested wildlife populations

This module’s goal is to introduce and evaluate a variety of common strategies for harvesting wild populations. The module includes reasons for harvesting, theoretical foundations for maximum sustainable yield and harvest strategies, age- and sex-biased harvests, and effects of harvesting on target and non-target wildlife. The module contains two case studies and a spreadsheet-based exercise suitable for either demonstration or laboratory use. The module also contains references to supplementary material that is freely available on the web.

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USFWS Taking a Holistic Approach to Combat Wildlife Crime

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ACTIVITY_HD_Gorospe et al. 2020_Using seafood traceability to teach the complexities of natural resource management and sustainability.

This lesson plan addresses the challenge of conveying to students the globalized nature and complexity of natural resource management. Specifically, it uses seafood traceability, or the ability to track seafood as it moves through the global seafood supply chain, as a theme for understanding the potential for science and technological innovations to enable traceability as well as the different roles that various stakeholders play in ensuring fisheries sustainability. The lesson plan conveys several themes related to environmental sustainability including: the role of consumer empowerment, the importance of data and information sharing, the need to coordinate multiple stakeholders, and the intersection of science, technology, and policy-making. In one classroom activity, students are guided through a small-group, active-learning exercise that challenges them to make sustainable seafood choices from a restaurant menu. In another activity, students are asked to role-play and consider the information needs of various stakeholders in the seafood supply chain. Overall, the lesson plan is designed to demonstrate that there is no one single solution to realize seafood traceability and ensure fisheries sustainability. Instead, fisheries and natural resource management require multifaceted solutions and the involvement of multiple sectors of society.

Time: 2 class periods or one lab

Gorospe KD, Josephs LI, Humphries AT. 2020. Using seafood traceability to teach the complexities of natural resource management and sustainability. CourseSource. https://doi.org/10.24918/cs.2020.10

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Case Study_Leary_Hybridization and Introgression in Tiger Salamanders

Provides a case study on tiger salamanders on how introduced organisms can directly alter the genetic characteristics of native populations through hybridization and introgression.  Covers terminology and applications of genetic research.

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HHMI CSI Wildlife

This interactive module allows students to use DNA profiling and related biological concepts to solve two cases of elephant poaching.

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Wildlife forensics and shark fin trade

This laboratory activity was developed by the MdBio Foundation and adapted by Towson University.  It relates to Maryland's standards of learning for high school, but can be used in college courses and adapted for other species.

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Evolution of Tusklessness in African Elephants

The exploitation of African elephants in the form of ivory poaching is exacerbated by warfare. The affects of this anthropogenic evolutionary force on the African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) in the Gorongoas National Park in Mozambique was investigated (Campbell-Staton, et. al. 2021) after the Mozambican civil war (1997-1992).  This multipart lesson is based on this research.  Here, we explore allele frequencies, phenotypic data, and the use of a chi-squared test to determine if the population is in Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium.  Because one gene influencing tusklessness is X-linked, we also explore inheritance of the trait, using hemophilia as an example.  The data used in this part of the lesson are simulated data based on reports from Zambia.

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Examining human impacts on tusk evolution in elephants using authentic research data

In this activity students explore and analyze real, authentic research data paired with HHMI’s “Selection for Tuskless Elephants” video in a hands-on investigation of human impacts on elephant evolution.

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Examining human impacts on tusk evolution in elephants using authentic research data using Serenity

In this activity students explore and analyze real, authentic research data paired with HHMI’s “Selection for Tuskless Elephants” video in a hands-on investigation of human impacts on elephant evolution using the R-Shiny App, Serenity.

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Choose Your Own Adventure: Control a Wildlife Disease Epidemic

This educational game allows teams of students to try to control a simulated epidemic in United States snake populations using their epidemiological and ecological knowledge. It combines a "choose your own adventure", scenario-based website with an agent based model (run in the free NetLogo program).

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Why Meiosis Matters: The case of the fatherless snake

A compelling reason to learn something can make all the difference in students’ motivation to learn it.  Motivation, in turn, is one of the key attitudes that drives learning.  This story presents students with a compelling puzzle of a fatherless snake.  The puzzle motivates students to learn about meiosis and mitosis, since the only way to explain the origin of the fatherless baby is by mastering details of meiosis.  During the process, students work through the major steps in meiosis, compare and contrast mitosis and meiosis, and apply their understanding to predict how meiosis “went wrong” to produce an unusual offspring that did not originate through union of an egg and a sperm.  This story can be adapted for introductory or advanced students and can be scaled from a brief introduction in a single lecture to a series of active learning exercises that could take two or more lecture periods.

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Teaching Notes for Global Temperature Change in the 21st Century

This is an FMN participant supplement for the TIEE module "Global Temperature Change in the 21st Century," authored by Daniel R. Taub and Gillian S. Graham in 2011.

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Louse and Human Coevolution

This module examines the complicated co-evolution of Lice, Humans, and Great Apes

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Behavioral Genetics: Investigating the genes of a complex phenotype in fruit flies

Introductory genetics laboratory published as GSA Learning Resource

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