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Kirk W Junker

2014

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A Strong Role For Custom In International Wildlife Litigation, Kirk W. Junker Dec 2013

A Strong Role For Custom In International Wildlife Litigation, Kirk W. Junker

Kirk W Junker

Two problems of wildlife law will be addressed in this article - one is spatial and the other is temporal. The first problem is the lack of identity with, and therefore support for, international wildlife law that local populations have. That leads to the second problem, which is the failure to apply the lessons learned from biodiversity law of fauna to the biodiversity problems of flora. As to the spatial problem, if we make a simple comparison between a map of biodiversity hotspots and a world geopolitical map, we can see that the hotsports worldwide fall largely in developing countries.