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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Rhino poaching"”.
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When Rhinos Are Sacred: Why Some Countries Control Poaching
… more effective than others at controlling rhino poaching? Rhinos are being poached to extinction throughout much of the world, yet some weak and poor countries have successfully controlled rhino poaching. This dissertation presents a theory accounting for divergent patterns in the control …
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A horn of contention: an analysis of the viability of a legalised trade in rhino horn
Trade in rhino horn is currently banned in terms of CITES, however the last few years have seen the establishment of an illegal trade which supplies the growing demand for rhino horn through poaching. As a result, a rhino poaching crisis has developed in South Africa, this dissertation will seek to …
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The rhino horn and ivory trade: 1980-2020
… and an influx of firearms led to heavy rhino and elephant poaching, especially in the 1970s and 1980s. I collected and analysed data to reveal the collapsing numbers of rhinos in Africa. Although we had general trade information, we needed more understanding of the soaring smuggling and …
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Preventing poaching : innovative strategies in the fight against wildlife crime
… strategies to address and ultimately prevent rhino poaching in South Africa. It is evident from the available research that a magnitude of anti-poaching efforts is available to address wildlife crime, ranging from the use of technology to conservation husbandry. However, despite the Skukuza …
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Poaching in context: a critical review of the role that corruption and criminal syndicates play in wildlife crime in South Africa, specifically in so far as it relates to the poaching of rhinoceros
… seems to be the reason that South African rhinos are still facing destruction. This paper aims to evaluate what the relationship is between wildlife crime with rhino poaching as a focus point, corruption and organised crime. It discusses the current enforcement framework, and investigates …
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Making a grand challenge: the social-symbolic work of conserving nature
… challenges: an acute biodiversity crisis (rhino poaching) in its iconic Kruger National Park, and the slow-burning inequality problem affecting three million people near the park's boundary. Unlike existing studies of SSW that commonly focus on one form of work targeting one social-symbolic …
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Modeling population dynamics of rhino-poacher interaction across South Africa and the Kruger National Park using ordinary differential equations
… the population dynamics between poachers and rhino as a predator-prey system in both South Africa (SA) and the Kruger National Park (KNP). The data used in this thesis consists mainly of government and police reports, as well publications from several NGOs and the limitations caused by this …