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Aligning Frames for Elephant Extinction: Towards a New Role for the United Nations

Part of: Elephant Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

André Nollkaemper
André Nollkaemper*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam, the European Society of International Law
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The development of rules and institutions relating to protection of elephants demonstrates the cardinal role of issue framing for international law. Frames are lenses that we use to highlight parts of reality and to promote particular policies over others. Over the past few decades, a wide variety of treaties and institutions addressing threats to elephants has developed, reflecting as wide a variety of frames. Some of these have helped elephants more than others.

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Symposium: Elephant Law
Information
AJIL Unbound , Volume 108 , 2014 , pp. 158 - 161
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2014

References

1 Nollkaemper, André, Framing Elephant Extinction, 3 ESIL Reflection 6 (2014)Google Scholar.

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8 SC Res. 2134 (Jan. 28, 2014).

9 SC Res. 2136 (Jan. 30, 2014).

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11 High-level Panel Discussion: “Poaching and Illicit Wildlife Trafficking – A Multidimensional Crime and a Growing Challenge to the International Community”, UN GA side event hosted by Germany and Gabon (Sept. 26, 2013).

12 See London Conference Declaration on Illegal Wildlife Trade, Feb. 13, 2014 (on file with U.S. Dep’t of State, U.S. Embassy, IIP Digital).

13 See High-level Panel Discussion: “Poaching and Illicit Wildlife Trafficking – A Multidimensional Crime and a Growing Challenge to the International Community”, UN GA side event hosted by Germany and Gabon (Sept. 26, 2013).

14 See Letter of Understanding Establishing the International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime (signed Nov. 23, 2010).

15 Letter dated Oct. 28, 2013 from the Permanent Reps. of Gabon and Germany to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General, UN Doc. A/68/553 (Oct. 28, 2013).