'What does the desperate effort to stave off mass extinction have to learn from the ineffectual effort to limit the global drug trade? Humility, for one thing. Vanda Felbab-Brown teaches this and other lessons with clarity, detail, and passion. Yes, we can "save the tiger." But only with hard work and clear thought. This book is the place to start.' -- Mark A.R. Kleiman, Professor of Public Policy, NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management
'The Extinction Market is a model of sharp insight into a complex problem that is delivered in clear and compelling prose. International supply chains for prohibited products are a modern plague. In contrasting two of the most important (drugs and wildlife), Felbab-Brown usefully challenges comfortable assumptions in both domains.' -- Jonathan Caulkins, American drug policy researcher, H. Guyford Stever Professor of Operations Research and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
'Vanda Felbab-Brown's eloquent book maps out the scale of today's global illicit wildlife trade and how to combat it. This book offers solutions and learning: it is an important addition to current international policy and academic debate on how to stop the "extinction market".' -- Dr Alex Vines OBE, Director of Area Studies and International Law, Chatham House and Senior Lecturer, Coventry University
'Dr. Felbab-Brown's clear-eyed assessment of the benefits and drawbacks of law enforcement and policy approaches to combatting wildlife trafficking, and her call for sensitivity to the poor and marginalized people who live closest to targeted wildlife, should be required reading for government policy makers, law enforcement officials, and conservationists trying to halt this terrible scourge.' -- Bob Dreher, Senior Vice President for Conservation Programs, Defenders of Wildlife, and former Associate Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
'A very unique and valuable contribution to the understanding of wildlife crime. The author's extensive research in the drug trade enables her to identify the similarities between wildlife and narcotics trafficking as a foundation for developing solutions. She then analyses the efficacy of various enforcement strategies commonly employed in drug control to combat wildlife crimes, and their impact on local communities.' -- Greg Warchol, Professor at Northern Michigan University, Department of Criminal Justice
'The damage being done to our planet and its species accentuates the urgency of this critical examination of the successes and failures of policy responses to illegal wildlife trafficking. Felbab-Brown provides a unique overview on how to counter this growing illegal industry, from community-based natural resource management approaches to anti-money-laundering efforts and demand-reduction strategies.' -- Daan P. van Uhm, Assistant Professor in Criminology, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
'A nuanced, detailed and thoughtful analysis that not only offers lessons for conservation policy, but uses conservation as a mirror to further inform global drugs policy.'
'Vanda Felbab-Brown's compelling study, The Extinction Market, provides a thorough account of the challenges in tackling a complex phenomenon. . . . Felbab-Brown combines academic rigour with sensible pragmatism and is not afraid to challenge accepted policy or propose ideas of her own. . . . The outlook for wildlife is far from positive, but this book provides the tools needed to devise conservation solutions for the future.' -- The World Today
`This sobering book . . . should be read by anybody serious about conservation and those campaigners against the abuse of drugs will find it of interest too. Vanda Felbab-Brown has done her research thoroughly and written an important book.'
