The Extinction Market: Wildlife Trafficking and How to Counter It

by Vanda Felbab Brown and Vanda Felbab-Brown

The planet is currently experiencing alarming levels of species loss caused in large part by intensified poaching and wildlife trafficking driven by expanding demand, for medicines, for food, and for trophies. Affecting many more species than just the iconic elephants, rhinos, and tigers, the rate of extinction is now as much as 1000 times the historical average and the worst since the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago. In addition to causing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190855118
• ISBN13: 9780190855116
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.3" x 8.4"