Indeed, 96 per cent of the world’s total remaining mammalian biomass — the combined weight, or mass, of mammal organic life — consists of either humans or our domesticated animals.
Our work at the Canadian Centre for Evidence-Based Conservation — in collaboration with staff from the United States Fish & Wildlife Service and colleagues with experience in wildlife crime and conservation — uses a mixture of evidence synthesis and “systematic mapping” to provide these vital insights.
Where are counter-wildlife crime actions taking place? From our synthesis of 530 studies, we found that most concerned Africa and Asia, with relatively fewer in Latin America. This geographical imbalance may be due, in part, to a language bias on our part, as we only considered English language articles, and not Spanish ones.
Evaluating interventions Put simply, the effectiveness of most counter-wildlife crime interventions have not been rigorously evaluated. Finally, there are critical gaps in our knowledge on the outcomes of counter-wildlife crime efforts at the population and species level . Our findings force us to confront some difficult questions about the assumptions made when investing in a counter-wildlife crime intervention. Chief among these is just how unreliable the evidence is that routinely applied interventions actually work. That is not to say that counter-wildlife crime interventions don’t work, but rather that we’re working off rules of thumb instead of evidence, which risks us investing in ineffective interventions.
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