Alison Rosser er foredragsholder under hovedtemaet "
Arts- og naturvern", og skal snakke om:
Relationship of the Pet trade to wildlife conservation
Biography: Alison Rosser, Ph.D.
Alison Rosser has recently moved to the Durrell Institute of Ecology and Conservation (DICE) at the University of Kent, UK.
DICE is dedicated to building capacity in countries rich in biodiversity and poor in resources and undertaking research necessary to conserve the functioning ecosystems upon which people depend. DICE was established in 1989 as Britain’s first research and postgraduate training centre in conservation science, and named in honour of Gerald Durrell. Alison’s role at DICE is to develop a new MSc programme on international wildlife trade and conservation.
Since undertaking post-graduate research in animal ecology at the Universities of Cambridge, UK and the University of Zambia, she moved to the NGO sector. She was the first country representative for TRAFFIC in Tanzania, working on capacity building and research projects. She has since run the Wildlife Trade Programme of IUCN – The World Conservation Union's Species Programme, responsible for much of IUCN's input to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
Alison’s research interests include investigating means to ensure that use of wild species will be sustainable and developing pragmatic methods to support conservation decision-making.
Relationship of the Pet trade to wildlife conservation
Alison Rosser Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE), Department of Anthropology, University of Kent Canterbury CT2 7NS, Kent, UK.
In the early years of the 21 century, it may be useful to consider coming challenges for biodiversity conservation and how the wildlife and pet trade might contribute to mitigating these challenges. In terms of wildlife trade, ongoing 20th century issues still relevant to the pet trade include the problem of direct over-exploitation of wild populations to collect animals for trade; poor or non-existant standards of animal welfare in trapping and transport; and the spread of invasive species and risks of disease introduction. In many developed countries, legislation and policy has now been enacted to address a number of these concerns. However it is not so clear whether this has fully addressed the problem or moved it elsewhere?
In the 21st century, more pressing global concerns such as poverty alleviation and climate change now overlay 20th century concerns. Although much of the exotic pet trade now relies on captive bred stock, this talk raises the question of whether there still a role for pet traders and owners to play on the global conservation stage in creating incentives for in-situ conservation?
