Tiger Summit Preliminaries
The latest Tiger Summit is going to begin in St Petersburg on the 21st of November. This has been heralded as yet another last ditch attempt to prevent the extinction of tigers in the wild. There may...
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Ivory Bust in HK & a question for the economists
It’s interesting holding an elephant tusk for the first time. You’re not quite sure what to expect. But the first thing you notice is that they’re heavy, heavier than I expected. This aspect...
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Ivory Crimes: Supply or Demand Shock?
One of the unsettled issues with the surge in elephant poaching seen after 2008/9 is explaining why it took off. The scale represents a break from the past. It seems inexplicable in terms of what we...
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To Dunedin! On an ivory quest!
Well, not exactly. But on Friday, I will be at Otago University and giving a seminar on ivory black markets. One topic I’m going to highlight is whether the legal factories in China (all 37 of them)...
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