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Daan P. van Uhm

The Illegal Wildlife Trade Inside the World of Poachers, Smugglers and Traders

Studies of Organized Crime Volume 15

Series Editor Dina Siegel, Willem Pompe Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

This series will publish theoretically significant books in two primary areas. One is the political economy of organized crime and criminality whether at the transnational, national, regional or local levels (focus on financial crime, political corruption, environmental crime, and the expropriation of resources from developing nations). The other is human rights violations particularly in Third World countries. Manuscripts that cover either historical or contemporary issues of the above, utilizing qualitative methodologies, are equally welcome. In addition, we are particularly interested in publishing the work of sophisticated junior scholars.

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/6564

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The Illegal Wildlife Trade Inside the World of Poachers, Smugglers and Traders

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Daan P. van Uhm Willem Pompe Institute Utrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands

ISSN 1571-5493 Studies of Organized Crime ISBN 978-3-319-42128-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-42129-2

ISBN 978-3-319-42129-2

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Foreword

The academic study of global trafficking in humans is as necessary as it is in non-humans. In the last 50 years libraries full of books and articles have been written about human trafficking and smuggling. However, there are a very limited number of publications on illegal activities with regard to animals and animal products. There is, however, no reason for criminologists to continue to exclude these issues from thei