The Poaching Diaries Crime Scripting for Wilderness Problems Edited by A.M. Lemieux Vol. 1 2020 The Poaching Diaries is an edited collection of contributions on wildlife crime prevention and wilderness problems. It is an outlet for practitioners, policy makers, and academics to tell stories that facilitate problem-solving. Vol. 1 Crime Scripting for Wilderness Problems Suggested citation Lemieux, A.M. (Ed.) (2020). The Poaching Diaries (vol. 1): Crime Scripting for Wilderness Problems. Phoenix, AZ: Center for Problem Oriented Policing, Arizona State University. © 2020 A.M. Lemieux, selection and editorial material; individual chapters, the contributors. The right of A.M. Lemieux to be identified as editor of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright Act of 1976. The views of the individual authors to this volume are their own, and do not necessarily reflect those of the editor or publisher. Center for Problem-Oriented Policing Netherlands Institute for the Study of School of Criminology & Criminal Justice Crime and Law Enforcement Arizona State University Postbus 71304 411 N. Central Ave., Suite 600, Mail Code 4420 1008 BH Amsterdam Phoenix, AZ 85004 The Netherlands Table of Contents Author information ................................................................................................................................... i I. Introduction – A.M. Lemieux and J.A. van der Ploeg ................................................................ 1 II. Product-based crime script of targeted leopard poaching for skin use in ceremonial attire by the Lozi People of Western Zambia – G. Whittington-Jones, I. Yeta, V. Naude, M. Lishandu, D. Chibeya, T. Dickerson and J. Dunnink .................................................................................. 8 III. African grey parrot poaching and trafficking, Democratic Republic of the Congo – N. Bruschi ................................................................................................................................. 17 IV. Bushmeat Hunting with Wheel Traps and Wire Snares in Rubirizi, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda – I. Ashaba ......................................................................................................... 29 V. Three types of lion killing in Kruger and Limpopo National Parks – K. Everatt..................... 36 VI. Reactionary script after rhino poaching event – N. van Doormaal .......................................... 48 VII. Identifying gaps in knowledge with crime scripting: an example for bushmeat poaching – J.F. Hill .................................................................................................................................... 54 VIII. Redwood Burl Poaching in the Redwood State & National Parks, California, USA – S.F. Pires, N. Marteache, B. Silver and S. Troy ....................................................................... 61 IX. Cactus Poaching in Saguaro National Park – S.C. McFann, S.F. Pires and R. O’Neil ............ 67 X. Trade and trafficking in small-clawed otters for the exotic pet market in Indonesia, Japan and Thailand – A. Parker & L. Slattery .......................................................................................... 73 XI. Large carnivore poaching using steel wire snares by Vietnamese poaching groups in tropical forests of Peninsular Malaysia – W.Y. Lam & Z.A. Mat ........................................................... 82 XII. Amber Mining in Northwest Ukraine – S.C. McFann ............................................................. 89 XIII. Illegal fishing in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, Australia – D. Weekers ....................... 96 Appendix: A Brief Introduction to Crime Scripting – J.A. van der Ploeg .......................................... 106 Author information Product-based crime script of targeted community. He is a historian of the Lozi culture leopard poaching for skin use in ceremonial and a strong traditionalist with a deep attire by the Lozi People of Western Zambia understanding of the cultural use of wild cat Contact: [email protected] skins. Gareth Whittington-Jones Doubt Chibeya Gareth Whittington-Jones holds a MSc degree in Doubt Chibeya is currently working as a Zoology and has 13 years of experience working Community Engagement Officer for Panthera in in the conservation sector, principally in the Zambia. He holds a MSc degree in Landscape Middle East and southern Africa. He joined ecology from Stockholm University, a degree in Panthera in 2015 and currently serves as the Wildlife Management from Copperbelt organisation’s Counter Wildlife Crime Regional University and a Certificate in Monitoring and Coordinator: Southern Africa. His role involves Evaluations of projects from the University of supporting the planning, implementation and Zambia. His principal interests are contributing evaluation of the organisation’s CWC activities to the improvement of livelihoods of poor across the region including demand-reduction, communities through strategic partnerships and wildlife crime analysis, counter-trafficking and alliances in the development sector at global, counter-poaching initiatives. regional and national levels. Senior Chief Inyambo Yeta Tristan Dickerson His Royal Highness, the Senior Chief Inyambo Tristan Dickerson is a zoologist with 15 years of Yeta is the traditional ruler of the Sisheke experience working in conservation. While Chiefdom in the Western Province of Zambia. He working for Panthera in KwaZulu-Natal, South studied law at the Universities of Swaziland and Africa, he founded the organisation’s Furs for Edinburgh, Scotland, where he graduated with Life Project that aims to stem the illegal trade of an honours in L.L.B. The Senior Chief is an avid leopard skins by providing high-quality, conservationist and was appointed to Peace Park affordable, and realistic synthetic leopard skin Foundation’s Board of Directors in 2011. He has garments to members of the Nazareth Baptist played an integral role in the establishment of ‘Shembe’ Church. Tristan is currently General the Saving Spots Project and other community- Manager of Phezulu Safari Park and continues based conservation initiatives. to play a key role in Panthera’s demand- reduction inititiatives in a consultancy capacity. Vincent Naude Vincent Naude is a PhD candidate at the Institute Jeffrey Dunnink for Communities and Wildlife in Africa, Jeffrey Dunnink is the Coordinator for University of Cape Town in collaboration with Panthera’s Furs for Life program, overseeing the Panthera. His research uses novel and production and distribution of synthetic fur multidisciplinary techniques (from forensic garments for use in traditional ceremonies in genetics to questionnaire surveys) to understand southern Africa. He also leads the demand the dynamics of the illegal trade in wild cats for reduction and conservation marketing campaigns traditional use in Africa. His PhD highlights the across the region. Jeffrey is an applied ecologist successes of Panthera’s Furs for Life with significant experience managing projects intervention with the Shembe Church, the across East Africa focused on developing transnational scale and syndication of leopard incentives for conservation through rural skin trade in southern Africa for traditional use development. and the genetic costs of overexploitation in leopard source populations poached and illegally traded for traditional use. Maswabi Lishandu Maswabi Lishandu is the Community Engagement Officer for Panthera’s Saving Spots Project in western Zambia. He is responsible for leading the engagement with the Barotse Royal Establishment and the broader Lozi i African grey parrot poaching and trafficking, work has focused on providing primary robust Democratic Republic of Congo species population ecology data to support Contact: government wildlife protection and management [email protected] activities. He has also developed and led independent on the ground counter-poaching Nicholas Bruschi teams. He joined Panthera in 2018 and now Nicholas Bruschi is Investigations Advisor at works on issues relating to the intersections World Animal Protection. He investigates between illegal and legal hunting, resource wildlife poaching, processing, trafficking and extraction and climate change on big cat ecology sale, and unethical or illegal activities across the and conservation. livestock and fishing industries. Nicholas works to disrupt this with law enforcement, financial Reactionary script after rhino poaching event agencies, think tanks and investigative Contact: [email protected] journalists, helps corporates identify [email protected] vulnerabilities in their supply chains, and assesses the impact of mining, logging, farming Nick van Doormaal and tourism on conservation. He also submits Nick van Doormaal is a PhD candidate at the evidence to global trade and policy processes to Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and strengthen legislation, governance and Law Enforcement (NSCR) and at the Department enforcement. Nicholas has a Masters in Conflict, of Sociology of Utrecht University. His PhD Security and Development from King’s College research focuses on the spatial decision-making London, where he is now a Research Associate, of poachers and rangers in protected areas. His and is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering research interests include wildlife crime, Specialist. situational crime prevention, and spatial- temporal analysis. Bushmeat Hunting