Policing wildlife trafficking in northeastern Mexico: the case of Tamaulipas in 2023-2024
Illegal wildlife trade is an environmental, economic, and social problem that threatens global public health and the security of countries. It is one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss on a global scale. Mexico is a source and transit nation for trafficked wildlife, so the timely detection by...
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| author | José Luis Carpio-Domínguez José Juan Cervantes-Niño Jesús Ignacio Castro-Salazar Violeta Mendezcarlo-Silva |
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| description | Illegal wildlife trade is an environmental, economic, and social problem that threatens global public health and the security of countries. It is one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss on a global scale. Mexico is a source and transit nation for trafficked wildlife, so the timely detection by Mexico’s governmental institutions is of fundamental importance for combating wildlife trafficking. The present study aims to analyze the factors that facilitate or constrain the police actions taken as first responders to wildlife trafficking in the state of Tamaulipas during the period 2023-2024. Through interviews with police officers, we determined that the prioritization of crimes related to public security has limited police attention to other forms of crime, such as wildlife trafficking. as the outcome is that wildlife trafficking is a largely uninvestigated, unquantified, and unaddressed crime. Further, most police officers are unaware that environmental crimes fall under their jurisdiction, which limits law enforcement and environmental justice in the state. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-362a5f23ab0947aab196a98e02535eb02025-01-27T09:56:33ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Conservation Science2673-611X2025-01-01610.3389/fcosc.2025.14885001488500Policing wildlife trafficking in northeastern Mexico: the case of Tamaulipas in 2023-2024José Luis Carpio-Domínguez0José Juan Cervantes-Niño1Jesús Ignacio Castro-Salazar2Violeta Mendezcarlo-Silva3Criminology Department, Faculty of Law, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, MexicoInstituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo Léon, Nuevo León, MexicoTecnologico Nacional de Mexico (TecNM), Instituto Tecnologico Superior de Abasolo, Abasolo, Guanajuato, MexicoLaw Department, Faculty of Law, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, MexicoIllegal wildlife trade is an environmental, economic, and social problem that threatens global public health and the security of countries. It is one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss on a global scale. Mexico is a source and transit nation for trafficked wildlife, so the timely detection by Mexico’s governmental institutions is of fundamental importance for combating wildlife trafficking. The present study aims to analyze the factors that facilitate or constrain the police actions taken as first responders to wildlife trafficking in the state of Tamaulipas during the period 2023-2024. Through interviews with police officers, we determined that the prioritization of crimes related to public security has limited police attention to other forms of crime, such as wildlife trafficking. as the outcome is that wildlife trafficking is a largely uninvestigated, unquantified, and unaddressed crime. Further, most police officers are unaware that environmental crimes fall under their jurisdiction, which limits law enforcement and environmental justice in the state.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2025.1488500/fullwildlife traffickingpolicingenvironmental crimepolicegreen criminology |
| spellingShingle | José Luis Carpio-Domínguez José Juan Cervantes-Niño Jesús Ignacio Castro-Salazar Violeta Mendezcarlo-Silva Policing wildlife trafficking in northeastern Mexico: the case of Tamaulipas in 2023-2024 Frontiers in Conservation Science wildlife trafficking policing environmental crime police green criminology |
| title | Policing wildlife trafficking in northeastern Mexico: the case of Tamaulipas in 2023-2024 |
| title_full | Policing wildlife trafficking in northeastern Mexico: the case of Tamaulipas in 2023-2024 |
| title_fullStr | Policing wildlife trafficking in northeastern Mexico: the case of Tamaulipas in 2023-2024 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Policing wildlife trafficking in northeastern Mexico: the case of Tamaulipas in 2023-2024 |
| title_short | Policing wildlife trafficking in northeastern Mexico: the case of Tamaulipas in 2023-2024 |
| title_sort | policing wildlife trafficking in northeastern mexico the case of tamaulipas in 2023 2024 |
| topic | wildlife trafficking policing environmental crime police green criminology |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2025.1488500/full |
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