caa a22 4500 445806451 CHVBK 20180317145157.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10745-011-9425-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10745-011-9425-8 To Poach or Not to Poach an Endangered Species: Elucidating the Economic and Social Drivers Behind Illegal Sea Turtle Hunting in Baja California Sur, Mexico [Elektronische Daten] [Agnese Mancini, Jesse Senko, Ricardo Borquez-Reyes, Juan Póo, Jeffrey Seminoff, Volker Koch] Despite complete legal protection, improvements in infrastructure, and market conditions that provide easier access to other protein sources, illegal poaching of sea turtles for consumption in Baja California Sur (BCS), Mexico remains a major threat to their recovery. Few studies have focused on understanding the economic and social drivers behind this activity, which is fundamental to determining best practices for discouraging it. From June 2007 to April 2008 we conducted eight in-depth, semi-structured interviews with sea turtle poachers at five coastal communities in BCS to determine the drivers influencing them. The most prevalent reasons for illegal poaching were direct economic benefits, lack of law enforcement and ease of escape from or bribery of authorities, and strong family tradition. Our results suggest that to reduce illegal poaching it will be necessary to better enforce existing environmental laws, reduce social acceptance of sea turtle hunting throughout the region, educate fishers on the ecological importance of sea turtles, and show fishers direct economic benefits from non-consumptive use of sea turtles, such as ecotourism. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2011 Baja California Sur nationallicence Mexico nationallicence Sea turtles nationallicence Black market nationallicence Poaching nationallicence Law enforcement nationallicence Fisheries nationallicence Illegal wildlife trade nationallicence Mancini Agnese Universidad Autonóma de Baja California Sur, Depto. de Biología Marina, Carretera al Sur, km 5.5, 23080, La Paz, BCS, Mexico aut Senko Jesse School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, 85287, Tempe, AZ, USA aut Borquez-Reyes Ricardo Universidad Autonóma de Baja California Sur, Depto. de Biología Marina, Carretera al Sur, km 5.5, 23080, La Paz, BCS, Mexico aut Póo Juan Universidad Autonóma de Baja California Sur, Depto. de Biología Marina, Carretera al Sur, km 5.5, 23080, La Paz, BCS, Mexico aut Seminoff Jeffrey Marine Turtle Ecology and Assessment Program, NOAA—National Marine Fishery Service, Southwest Fishery Science Centre, 3333 North Torrey Pines, 92037, La Jolla, CA, USA aut Koch Volker Universidad Autonóma de Baja California Sur, Depto. de Biología Marina, Carretera al Sur, km 5.5, 23080, La Paz, BCS, Mexico aut Human Ecology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 39/6(2011-12-01), 743-756 0300-7839 39:6<743 2011 39 10745 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-011-9425-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-011-9425-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mancini Agnese Universidad Autonóma de Baja California Sur, Depto. de Biología Marina, Carretera al Sur, km 5.5, 23080, La Paz, BCS, Mexico aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Senko Jesse School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, 85287, Tempe, AZ, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Borquez-Reyes Ricardo Universidad Autonóma de Baja California Sur, Depto. de Biología Marina, Carretera al Sur, km 5.5, 23080, La Paz, BCS, Mexico aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Póo Juan Universidad Autonóma de Baja California Sur, Depto. de Biología Marina, Carretera al Sur, km 5.5, 23080, La Paz, BCS, Mexico aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Seminoff Jeffrey Marine Turtle Ecology and Assessment Program, NOAA—National Marine Fishery Service, Southwest Fishery Science Centre, 3333 North Torrey Pines, 92037, La Jolla, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Koch Volker Universidad Autonóma de Baja California Sur, Depto. de Biología Marina, Carretera al Sur, km 5.5, 23080, La Paz, BCS, Mexico aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Human Ecology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 39/6(2011-12-01), 743-756 0300-7839 39:6<743 2011 39 10745 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer