Irrelephant: The Misleading Connections Between Terrorism and Ivory Poaching

12 Aug

Written By Alexandria Reid

Oxford University Illegal Wildlife Trade — Alexandria Reid, ‘Irrelephant: The Misleading Connections between Terrorism and Ivory Poaching’, The Oxford University Politics Blog, August 2017.

The world is experiencing an ‘environmental crime crisis’. Headlines on popular news sites like The Huffington Post carry the message that ‘Ending Wildlife Trafficking Will Help the Fight Against Terrorism’. It continues to be a message that has a transatlantic audience among the readers of the New York Times to the English tabloid, the Mirror.
Do the connections really exist?
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