Poaching, habitat loss and the decline of neotropical parrots: A comparative spatial analysis

Journal of Experimental Criminology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 333-353

  Clarke, Ronald V ^a   de By, Rolf A ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conservation; Endangered species; Matched case controls; Parrot poaching; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883133969     PISSN: 15733750     EISSN: 15728315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11292-013-9177-0     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Armstrong, M. C., Farinato, R. H., & Telecky, T. M. (2001). A wing and a prayer: Birds and their protection under law. Journal of Avian Medicine and Surgery, 150(4), 310-315. 0.
2. Barber-Meyer, S. M. (2010). Dealing with the clandestine nature of wildlife-trade market surveys. Conservation Biology, 240(4), 918-923.
3. Beirne, P., & South, N. (Eds.). (2007). Issues in green criminology: Confronting harms against environments, humanity and other animals. Cullompton: Willan.
4. BirdLife International (2009). The BirdLife checklist of the birds of the world, with conservation status and taxonomic sources. Technical report, BirdLife International. URL http://www. birdlife. org/datazone/species/downloads/BirdLife_Checklist_Version_2. zip. Version 2.
5. BirdLife International. (2000). Threatened birds of the world. Barcelona: Lynx.
6. Bose, J., Kandpal, K. D., Anwar, M., Guleria, H., Vattakaven, J., Ahmed, A., et al. (2011). Interim relief scheme for cattle predation by tigers. Technical report. New Delhi: WWF-India.
7. Cantu, J. C., Sanchez Saldana, M. E., Grosselet, M., & Gamez, J. S. (2007). The illegal parrot trade in mexico: A comprehensive assessment. Technical report. Washington, DC: Defenders of Wildlife.
8. Clarke, R. V. (1999). Hot products: Understanding, anticipating and reducing demand for stolen goods. London: Police Research Series Paper 112, Policing and Reducing Crime Unit, Research Development and Statistics Directorate.
9. Clarke, R. V. (2009). Situational crime prevention: Theoretical background and current practice. In M. Krohn, A. Lizotte, & G. Hall (Eds.), Handbook on crime and deviance (pp. 259-276). New York: Springer Science + Business Media.
10. Collar, N. J. (1997). Family psittacidae (parrots). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, & J. Sargatal (Eds.), Sandgrouse to cuckoos, handbook of the birds of the world, vol. 4 (pp. 280-477). Barcelona: Lynx.
11. Collar, N. J., & Juniper, A. T. (1992). New world parrots in crisis-Solutions from conservation biology, chapter dimensions and causes of the parrot conservation crisis (pp. 1-24). Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press.
12. Cornish, D. B., & Clarke, R. V. (2003). Opportunities, precipitators and criminal decisions. In D. B. Cornish & M. J. Smith (Eds.), Theory for practice in situational crime prevention, crime prevention studies, vol. 16 (pp. 41-96). Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press.
13. Cressie, N. (1996). Change of support and the modifiable areal unit problem. Geographical Systems, 3, 159-180.
14. Cullen, F. T. (2011). Beyond adolescence-limited criminology: Choosing our future-The American society of criminology 2010 Sutherland address. Criminology, 490(2), 287-330.
15. Dickinson, E. C. (Ed.). (2003). The howard and moore complete checklist of the birds of the world (3rd ed.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
16. Drews, C. (2002). Wild animals and other pets kept in Costa Rican households. Society and Animals, 90(2), 107-126.
17. Environmental Justice Foundation (2005). Party to the plunder: Illegal fishing in Guinea and its links to the EU. URL www. ejfoundation. org/pdf/party_to_the_plunder. pdf.
18. Ferrier, P. (2009). The economics of agricultural and wildlife smuggling. Economic Research Report 81. Washington, DC: U. S. Dept. of Agriculture.
19. Gastañaga, M., Macleod, R., Hennessey, B., Ugarte Núnẽz, J., Puse, E., Arrascue, A., et al. (2010). A study of the parrot trade in Peru and the potential importance of internal trade for threatened species. Bird Conservation International, 21, 76-85.
20. Gonzàlez, J. A. (2003). Harvesting, local trade, and conservation of parrots on the northeastern Peruvian Amazon. Biological Conservation, 114, 437-446.
21. Herrera, M., & Hennessey, B. (2007). Quantifying the illegal parrot trade in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, with emphasis on threatened species. Bird Conservation International, 17, 295-300.
22. IUCN (2010). The IUCN red list of threatened species. URL www. iucnredlist. org.
23. James, F. C. (1992). A round table discussion of parrot trade problems and solutions. In S. R. Beissinger & N. F. R. Snyder (Eds.), New world parrots in crisis-Solutions from conservation biology (pp. 241-256). Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
24. Jetz, W., Wilcove, D. S., & Dobson, A. P. (2007). Projected impacts of climate and land-use change on the global diversity of birds. PLoS Biology, 50(6), e157.
25. Jetz, W., Sekercioglu, C. H., & Watson, J. E. M. (2008). Ecological correlates and conservation implications of overestimating species geographic ranges. Conservation Biology, 22, 110-119.
26. Juniper, T. & Parr, M. (1998). Parrots-A guide to the parrots of the world. (East Sussex, UK/New Haven: Pica Press/Yale University Press).
27. Lemieux, A. M., & Clarke, R. V. (2009). The international ban on ivory sales and its effects on elephant poaching in Africa. British Journal of Criminology, 49, 451-471.
28. Magrath, W. B., Grandaski, R. L., Stuckey, G. L., Vikanes, G. B. & Wilkinson, G. R. (2007). Timber theft prevention. Technical report, The World Bank.
29. Maxwell, A. E. (1970). Comparing the classification of subjects by two independent judges. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 1160(651-655).
30. Orme, C. D. L., Davies, R. G., Olson, V. A., Thomas, G. H., Ding, T.-S., Rasmussen, P. C., Ridgely, R. S., Stattersfield, A. J., Bennett, P. M., Owens, I. P. F., Blackburn, T. M. & Gaston, K. J. (2006). Global patterns of geographic range size in birds. PLoS Biology, 40 (7): e208, 06 doi: 10. 1371/journal. pbio. 0040208. URL http://dx. doi. org/10. 1371%2Fjournal. pbio. 0040208.
31. Pain, D. J., Martins, T. L. F., et al. (2006). Impact of protection on nest take and nesting success of parrots in Africa, Asia, and Australia. Animal Conservation, 9, 322-330.
32. Petrossian, G. A. (2012). The decision to engage in illegal fishing: An examination of situational factors in 54 countries. New Jersey: PhD thesis, Rutgers University.
33. Pires, S. F. (2011). The illegal parrot trade in the neo-tropics: The relationship between poaching and illicit pet markets. New Jersey: PhD thesis, Rutgers University.
34. Pires, S. F., & Clarke, R. V. (2011). Sequential foraging, itinerant fences and parrot poaching in Bolivia. British Journal of Criminology, 510(2), 314-335.
35. Pires, S. F., & Clarke, R. V. (2012). Are parrots CRAVED? An analysis of parrot poaching in Mexico. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 490(1), 122-146.
36. Raymakers, C. (2002). The social and economic aspects of illegal fishing in the Caspian Sea. TRAFFIC Europe, WWF: Technical report.
37. Remsen, Jr., J. V., Cadena, C. D., Jaramillo, A., Nores, M., Pacheco, J. F., Robbins, M. B., Schulenberg, T. S., Stiles, F. G., Stotz, D. F. & Zimmer, K. J. (2010). A classification of the bird species of South America. Version June 2010, American Ornithologists' Union URL www. museum. lsu. edu/Remsen/SACCBaseline. html.
38. Ridgely, R. S., Alnutt, T. F., Brooks, T., McNicol, D. K., Mehlman, D. W., Young, B. E. & Zook, J. R. (2010). Digital distribution maps of the birds of the Western Hemisphere, version 3. 0. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia URL www. natureserve. org/getData/birdMaps. jsp.
39. Rosen, G. E., & Smith, K. F. (2010). Summarizing the evidence on the international trade in illegal wildlife. EcoHealth, 7, 24-32.
40. Sibley, C. G., & Monroe, B. L., Jr. (1991). Distribution and taxonomy of birds of the world. New Haven: Yale University Press.
41. Sidebottom, A. (2012). On the application of CRAVED to livestock theft in Malawi. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice 1-18 iFirst; in press.
42. Snyder, N., McGowan, P., Gilardi, J., & Grajal, A. (Eds.). (2009). Parrots. status survey and conservation action plan 2000-2004. Technical report. Gland: IUCN.
43. TRAFFIC. (2008). What's driving the wildlife trade? A review of expert opinion on economic and social drivers of the wildlife trade and trade control efforts in Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR and Vietnam. Technical report, East Asia and Pacific Region Sustainable Development Department. Washington, DC: The World Bank.
44. Weisburd, D., & Piquero, A. R. (2008). How well do criminologists explain crime? statistical modeling in published studies. In M. Tonry (Ed.), Crime and justice: A Review of Research, vol. 37 (pp. 453-502). Chicago: University of Chicago.
45. White, R. (Ed.). (2008). Crimes against nature. Cullompton: Willan.
46. Wright, T., et al. (2001). Nest poaching in neotropical parrots. Conservation Biology, 150(3), 710-720.