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Big tech, regulators and conservationists must unite to tackle online wildlife trade

27th January 2022

Dr Rowan Martin, Research Associate, University of Cape Town

ANALYSIS: Despite strong community rules and safeguards, some social media platforms remain a haven for a range of illegality, including the illicit trade in wildlife; University of Cape Town Research Associate Dr Rowan Martin, University of Oxford Senior Research Fellow Dr Amy Hinsley, and Dr Ana Nuno, Research Fellow at Nova School of Business and Economics, believe that trade can only be tackled effectively if experts, big tech and regulators adopt a united approach.

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Dr Rowan Martin is a Research Associate in the Fitzpatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town. His research interests lie in the fields of behavioural ecology and conservation, and in understanding the drivers and implications of trade in wildlife and the design of effective interventions to address associated harms. As Director of the World Parrot Trust’s Africa Conservation Programme he has spearheaded multiple research and conservation initiatives aimed at protecting vulnerable populations of some of the world’s most threatened bird species, dismantling illicit trade networks and supporting evidence-based policy in both the private and public sectors.