ICCB 2013 Program - Society for Conservation Biology

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Symposium: Detecting, Understanding and Deterring Conservation Crime: Session II
Room 307
Monday, July 22, 10:30 to 12:30
Organizer(s): Jennifer Solomon, Colorado State University; Meredith Gore, Michigan State University; Michael Gavin, Colorado State
University
Monday
Conservation criminology is an emerging field that cuts across disciplines and requires the cooperation of individuals in
subjects as varied as law enforcement, policy, criminology, natural resource management, conservation biology, psychology, and
risk management. Conservation criminology is “the study of environmental risks at the nexus between humans and natural
resources that involve issues of crime, compliance and/or social control” (Gibbs et al. 2010). Illicit or non-compliant human
behaviors may occur in all ecosystems and range from subsistence illegal resource collection inside protected areas to poaching
of megafauna by organized criminal syndicates. Such acts have an enormous impact on ecosystems and yet the study of them
is limited, primarily because the topic is extremely sensitive and the victims are voiceless. We propose to highlight recent
innovations in detecting, understanding and deterring conservation crimes. Speakers will address issues ranging from novel
methodologies for quantifying subsistence-level illegal resource use to technological advances used to deter poaching. The
intention of the presentations is to bring conference attendees a synopsis of how conservation crime is currently being studied
as well as highlighting future directions for research and the need for an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach that connects
across multiple stakeholder groups in an attempt to deter conservation crime.
10:30 Applying novel approaches to assess the prevalence and drivers of illegal bushmeat hunting
Ana Nuno, Imperial College London
10:45 Bags and Tags: An empirical evaluation of policy change for reducing illegal recreational fishing of red abalone
(Haliotis rufescens) in Northern California
Sara Lewis, University of California-Santa Cruz
11:00 Quantifying illegal hunting via a new methodological approach
Abu Conteh, Victoria University of Wellington; Michael C. Gavin, Colorado State University; Jennifer N. Solomon,
Colorado State University
11:15 Public motivations for compliance with wildlife legislation: carnivore killing in rural Taiwan
Freya St. John, University of Kent
11:30 Profiling poachers: Using randomized response technique to assess rates of hunting violations by deer and elk
hunters in Washington State
Anthony Novack, WA State Dept of Fish and Wildlife
11:45 A novel approach for understanding conservation crime Focus groups as a tool for understanding inclinations and
evaluating interventions for illegal take of wolves
Christine Browne-Nunez, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
12:00 Dismantling conservation crime: leveraging integrated and innovative responses across related sectors of security,
technology and enforcement
Crawford Allan, WWF / TRAFFIC
Open discussion follows from 12:15 to 12:30
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Student Awards Finalists: Session II
Room 308
Monday, July 22, 10:30 to 12:30
10:30 Plenary: Big Rocks and Marine Conservation Science at WWF
Helen Fox, WWF-US
11:00 A conservation genomics approach for fisheries management of commercial fishes that form spawning
aggregations
Alexis Jackson, University of California Santa Cruz; Brice Semmens, Scripps Institute of Oceanography; Yvonne Sadovy,
University of Hong Kong; Richard Nemeth, University of the Virgin Islands; Scott Heppell, Oregon State University;
Giacomo Bernardi, University of California Santa Cruz
11:15 Spatial and temporal trends in the recent decline of carnivores and ungulates
Moreno Di Marco, Dep. of Biology and Biotechnology, Sapienza University of Rome; Luigi Boitani, Dep. of Biology and
Biotechnology, Sapienza University of Rome; David Mallon, Dep. of Biology, Chemistry and Health Science, Manchester
Metropolitan Univ; Angela Iacucci, Dep. of Biology and Biotechnology, Sapienza University of Rome; Mike Hoffmann,
IUCN Species Survival Commission, c/o UNEP-WCMC; Jan Schipper, New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences,
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