The Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change

is a research museum of the Leibniz Association

Wildlife CSI - Forensic investigation and genetic monitoring of illegal wildlife trade

Date: 
Mon, 11/11/2019 - 5:15pm
Meeting point: 
Poppelsdorfer Schloss
Location: 
Lecture hall
Event type: 
Lecture
Event series: 
Colloquium on evolution and biodiversity
Target group: 
Studierende
Lecturer: 
Dr. Stefan Prost, LOEWE-Center for Translational Biodiversity Genomics, Senckenberg, Frankfurt

Illegal wildlife trade was characterized as the 4th most profitable illegal industry in the world in 2008, worth up to $21 billion dollars annually.

Now, more than 10 years later, only illegal fishing alone has an annual worth of up to $23 billion. Alarmingly, wildlife trade, legal and illegal, represents one of the most prominent drivers for vertebrate extinction risk world-wide, surpassing climate change by far.

In this presentation I will outline how illegal wildlife trade is structured, discuss its detrimental effects on biodiversity and how we apply molecular wildlife forensics to monitor and counteract this global illegal phenomenon.  

Contact person

Head of Section
+49 228 9122-241
+49 228 9122-295
h.waegele [at] leibniz-zfmk.de

Colloquium on biology

Prof. Dr. A. Blanke
Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology
An der Immenburg 1, 53121 Bonn

 

Prof. Dr. A. Suh
Leibniz-Institut for the Analyses of Biodiversity Change, Museum Koenig Bonn
Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn

 

Place: Large Lecture Hall, Institute of Zoology, Poppelsdorfer Schloß or online via ZOOM

Time: mondays, 5:15 pm