Eradicating the market for illegal wildlife products Sabri Zain Director of Policy TRAFFIC
Linkages with the private sector and online retail sources REVIEW OF PROGRESS Linkages with the private sector and online retail sources Domestic ivory bans Research into specific values and behaviours Some examples of countries researching and targeting specific social values in behaviour change campaigns Continuing challenges in reaching individual consumers A variety of multimedia platforms and workshops to reach consumers Need to monitor and evaluate demand reduction strategies to ensure more targeted impact
17TH MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES TO CITES, JOHANNESBURG
Private sector involvement SOME LESSONS LEARNED Twin-track approach Government -led social change Private sector involvement
TOOLS AND MECHANISMS: TOOLKIT Wildlife Consumer Behaviour Change Toolkit www.changewildlifeconsumers.org
TOOLS AND MECHANISMS: COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
TOOLS AND MECHANISMS: ROADMAPS
ACTION AND IMPACT By 2018, those countries with markets for illegally traded wildlife species develop a Roadmap to demonstrate how they will tackle consumer demand to deliver against international commitments and the CITES Resolution on demand reduction Take all necessary legislative, regulatory and enforcement measures to close the domestic markets for commercial trade in rhino horn, Tiger bone and raw and worked ivory as a matter of urgency Take all necessary legislative, regulatory and enforcement measures to phase out and close all facilities breeding Tigers and Bears for commercial trade Encourage all State-owned and private sector companies to commit to zero tolerance policies on buying or selling illegal wildlife products and to adopt at least one institutional action to reduce demand for those products
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