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SUMMARY:Identifying Key Countries in the Illegal Elephant Ivory Trade Netw
 ork - Jakob Poffley\, University of Cambridge
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DESCRIPTION:*Title*\n\nIdentifying Key Countries in the Illegal Elephant I
 vory Trade Network\n\n*Abstract* \n\nIllegal wildlife trade is a key drive
 r of biodiversity loss\, but targeting policy to maximise disruption to tr
 ade remains a key challenge. A network approach was applied to seizure dat
 a to prioritise national action disrupting the illegal trade of elephant i
 vory. By simulating the removal of countries from trade\, targeting groups
  of countries was found to be most effective due to network redundancy. De
 spite temporal variability\, trade was highly concentrated and cessation i
 n less than 10 countries would have disrupted 75% of trade in 2018-2020. T
 hese findings support evidence-based legislation and efficient allocation 
 of conservation resources for tackling illegal wildlife trade.\n\n*Bio* \n
 \nJakob is a PhD student in the Conservation and Development Lab (Departme
 nt of Geography). His research focuses on evaluating policy for sustainabl
 e land systems\, supervised by Prof. Rachael Garrett and Prof. Srinivasan 
 Keshav. This work is supported by the Centre for Doctoral Training on Arti
 ficial Intelligence applied to the study of Environmental Risk (AI4ER CDT)
 . Before starting his PhD\, Jakob completed an MRes with AI4ER in Environm
 ental Data Science\, where he collaborated with TRAFFIC to develop data-dr
 iven tools to inform international illegal wildlife trade policy. Previous
 ly\, Jakob completed an undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences at the Un
 iversity of Cambridge\, specialising in Plant Sciences\, and contributed t
 o research on metrics for biodiversity offsetting\, novel approaches to wi
 ldlife monitoring and forest ecology.\n\n\n
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