Koustubh Chandra Dubey, BBA LLB, Symbiosis Law School Nagpur
ABSTRACT:
This research ponders upon the existence, impact, and nesting nature of corruption in the illegal wildlife trade.
With an estimated value of more than US$20 billion in criminally obtained proceeds and biodiversity losses, this must be a high-priority issue with significant investment.2 What we already know is, corruption facilitates poaching wildlife crimes3 and other dangers to flora and fauna. But we don’t know the main corruption risks and anti-corruption approaches which have to be adopted in the fight against the mammoth’s fungus for flora and fauna.
We will investigate corruption in illegal wildlife trafficking using Passas' concepts of symbiotic and antithetical relationships and certain conservational theories. These findings are backed by the concepts of legal exploitation while emphasizing the nature of corrupt practices influenced by socio-political and cultural settings.
Understanding the prey, the hunter and the way of its trade might solve this growing menace.
Keywords: Poaching, Illegal Market, Wildlife Crime, Conservation Criminology, Environmental Crime, Wildlife Trafficking, Criminological Theory, illegal markets, illegal wildlife trade, corruption, ethnography.
