{"id":453,"date":"2021-03-15T13:54:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T17:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/biosecurity\/living-a-wild-life-part-1-illicit-wildlife-trade\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T15:37:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T19:37:59","slug":"living-a-wild-life-part-1-illicit-wildlife-trade","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/biosecurity\/living-a-wild-life-part-1-illicit-wildlife-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Living a Wild Life Part 1: Illicit Wildlife Trade, Money Laundering & Border Security"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Living a Wild Life Part 1: Illicit Wildlife Trade, Money Laundering & Border Security<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\nParticipants do not need any formal undergraduate and postgraduate educational requirements.  However, participants should be currently operating in the relevant sectors such as border security and financial, logistics and trade sectors including port health, customs, police, immigration, logistics management, legal, international trade, banks, credit unions, insurance, or as asset managers, securities broker-dealers, credit card issuers and alternate payment systems professionals. 
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\nThis short course will seek to develop critical competencies in the scientific and practical understanding of biosecurity implications associated with wildlife hunting, wildlife trade and consumption and zoonotic disease transmission in financial sector, legal, animal health, environmental management and border security professionals.  These competencies will range from understanding the basic terminology, the critical nature of these human activities, the negative impacts on the economy, trade, financial sector, agriculture, tourism and border security, and the potential methods to mitigate against these impacts. 
\nThe hunting, trading and consumption of wildlife has been implicated in the genesis of the current COVID-19 pandemic and also other previous major infectious disease outbreaks, wildlife population decreases and previous biosecurity breaches. In this way, the risk of the emergence of a novel infectious disease emerging from the Caribbean is real given similar social and cultural practices of wildlife hunting, trade and consumption to those in China. The implications of illegal wildlife trade (IWT) with money laundering (ML) and terror financing (TF) is well known globally but much less in the Caribbean, and in light of the recent EU blacklisting and FATF grey listing of Caribbean countries for failure of anti-money laundering (AML) and TF regulations, this renders this course very timely for respective professionals and practitioners. Thus, this course seeks to expose participants to the biosecurity implications associated with wildlife hunting, IWT trade and the implications of ML, as well as their impact on border security in the Caribbean and worldwide. 
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