Europe’s Selling Out Of Wild Species Is A Wildlife Crime
The world has seen an exponential increase in the amount of data generated each day. This has happened because big data has the power to provide a competitive advantage in the globalised and hyper-competitive world of business. But this is only half the story. While big data is big business, and often called the new oil, some systems are left to languish in a pre-digital world, opaque to effective monitoring. Whilst the regulation of most industries has been undermined in the last four decades, one is a standout, namely the extraction of wild species for trade. This is maybe best illustrated with the example of Europe. Europe is the biggest profiteer from the trade in wild species. A [...]