Category Archives: Rhinos

Sorting fact from fiction

Posted on 08/01/2017 by Marjan

Former British Foreign Secretary, The Rt Hon William Hague, will chair the launch of a joint publication by the Marjan Centre with the Royal United Service Institute (RUSI) called ‘Poaching, Wildlife Trafficking and Security in Africa: Myths and Realities’ which … Continue reading →

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Financing Wildlife Conservation in the 21st Century

Posted on 11/08/2015 by Marjan

This blog considers a major problem facing wildlife conservation, how it might be solved, and how the Marjan Centre is contributing to that solution. The problem is the massive economic asymmetry in wildlife conservation: underfunded conservation organisations paying for expensive, … Continue reading →

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Wildlife Conservation Game Theory

Posted on 04/08/2015 by Marjan

This post considers how board games can be used as enjoyable, interactive educational tools to teach key themes in topics such as wildlife conservation. Board games, war games and online games have been around for some time. While many of … Continue reading →

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Unravelling rhino riddles

Posted on 23/06/2015 by Marjan

Why are some countries more effective than others at controlling rhino poaching, asks Paul Tanghe. Since 2008, surging consumer demand in Vietnam and China has triggered a global crisis in rhino poaching. In South Africa, the twentieth-century paradigm of conservation … Continue reading →

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The Business Solution To Rhino Conservation

Posted on 04/09/2014 by Marjan

You may assume from the title of this post that it will be arguing for the legalisation of the rhino trade as the only means to protect rhino, but that is not the case. While there are arguments both for … Continue reading →

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‘Rhinofication’ of South Africa

Posted on 24/07/2014 by Marjan

The rhino-poaching crisis in South Africa poses a question about whether it should be tackled through judicial processes or by the application of more hard power methods? From the earliest ages, the poaching of wildlife has been met with a … Continue reading →

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Grouseonomics

Posted on 19/03/2014 by Marjan

This post stems from an interesting argument I read on The Marjan Centre blog by Richard Milburn. It’s a recurring argument and one that is simultaneously distasteful and pragmatic. It’s not necessarily the solution but it is certainly applicable in … Continue reading →

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If you have a goose that lays a golden egg, why would you destroy demand for golden eggs? A defence of the legalisation of the wildlife trade

Posted on 19/02/2014 by Marjan

The recent meeting at Lancaster house to discuss the illegal wildlife trade, which brought together world leaders, conservationists and two future British Monarchs, has once again focused attention on the plight of many endangered species and the methods that should … Continue reading →

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Conservation’s ‘just war’

Posted on 06/12/2013 by Marjan

Militarism as an ideology that privileges military culture and values – including violence as an appropriate response to conflict – and that justifies the expansion of these values and culture into nominally civilian spheres. Militarization, on the other hand, is … Continue reading →

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From COIN to ‘soft power’

Posted on 28/11/2013 by Marjan

The increased militarization of the means and response to poaching in the recent past is contrasted by several grassroots initiatives worth examining. Indeed, technology previously hard to obtain is now accessible and making its way as a key tool from … Continue reading →

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