Wildlife crime: lessons learned on the street are important for preventing crime in the bush Seminar

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Wildlife crime is a diverse problem that affects protected areas and communities around the world. Finding solutions that reduce offender motivation or remove criminal opportunities requires detailed analyses that are crime-, time-, and place-specific; a basic tenant of problem-oriented policing strategies used in urban environments. An approach such as this requires those affected by wildlife crime to collect useful information that can be used for problem solving. Building the capacity of stakeholders to collect such data, and more importantly analyse it, cannot be overlooked. Based on experiences in Africa and Asia, the lecture will discuss ways in which data-driven interventions can be designed, and what is needed to use problem-oriented policing and situational crime prevention to reduce wildlife crime.