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Stop stimulating demand - Let wildlife-trade bans work
2013 Full Book
Wildlife-trade bans work - if they are not sabotaged. Bans reduce demand because most consumers are law-abiding. Ongoing efforts to reduce residual demand ensure a ban's conservation success. Conversely, rekindling and stimulating demand sabotages bans, endangering the species they were meant to protect. This is what has happened to the bans that had started to bring back elephants, rhinos and tigers in the wild. Bans on trade in parts and products from wild elephants, rhinos and tigers did work and would have continued working if the dying demand for their parts and products had not been revived and stimulated by legal trade that has confused consumers, thwarted law enforcement and opened opportunities for criminals and wealthy speculators who are banking on extinction.
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