The Fight Against the Rhino Horn Trade in Vietnam 🦏
Media criminologist Dr Michael Smith explores enforcement and behaviour change campaigns to fight the rhino horn trade in Vietnam, drawing on his journalistic and academic research into why perceptions of rhino horn as medicine, wealth and status continue to drive demand across East and West. Part of the Oxfordshire Mammal Group winter lecture series.
What to expect:
🦏 The story behind the trade — How African rhinos have been repeatedly hunted to the brink of extinction, and how the fight to save them is happening all over again
🔬 New research on fighting the demand — Dr Smith’s media criminology work on enforcement and behaviour change campaigns, rooted in his award-winning investigative journalism from Vietnam to South Africa
🗣️ A chance to ask questions — An intimate evening lecture in the museum with the speaker, followed by Q&A — free for Oxfordshire Mammal Group members, £4 on the door otherwise