Harms and the illegal wildlife trade: political ecology, green criminology and the European eel

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This paper integrates political ecology and green criminology to examine the critical endangerment of the European eel. Using a harms based approach our research suggests that the identification of organised crime networks as the central perpetrators of illegal wildlife trade (IWT) and of IWT itself as the main threat to eels, neglects a myriad of practices—many of which are related to legal businesses and activities—that significantly contribute to the endangerment of the species. We suggest that, in order to better protect the European eel, we need more holistic conservation measures that go beyond a focus on fisheries and IWT.

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Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Gutierrez, L. Duffy, R. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6779-7240
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© 2023 The Author(s). Open Access: This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Dates:	Published: March 2024 Published (online): 1 December 2023 Accepted: 25 October 2023
Institution:	The University of Sheffield
Academic Units:	The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield)
Funding Information:	Funder Grant number ECONOMIC & SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL ES/V00929X/1
Depositing User:	Symplectic Sheffield
Date Deposited:	07 Dec 2023 15:59
Last Modified:	03 Jun 2024 19:12
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Springer
Refereed:	Yes
Identification Number:	10.1007/s10612-023-09734-4
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:206136

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