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Disentangling the Legal and Illegal Wildlife Trade–Insights from Indonesian Wildlife Market Surveys [PDF]
Animals, 2022 It is challenging to disentangle the legal and illegal aspects of wild-caught animals that are traded in wildlife markets or online, and this may diminish the value of conducting wildlife trade surveys. We present empirical studies on the trade in birds (
Vincent Nijman +4 more
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Economic value of illegal wildlife trade entering the USA. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 Illegal wildlife trade is one of the greatest threats to biodiversity. Understanding its economic value is a first step to establishing the magnitude of the problem.
Jia Hao Tow +2 more
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People and Nature, 2023 Illegal wildlife trade is a global threat to biodiversity, but its drivers and impacts and ways to combat it vary by taxa. News media framing of instances of illegal trade provides a novel window into understanding public perceptions of these dynamics ...
Tara Easter +3 more
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Synthesizing knowledge on crime convergence and the illegal wildlife trade
Environmental Challenges, 2021 The intensified illegal trade of wildlife has contributed to the unsustainable decline of wildlife populations, the de-stabilization of ecosystems, and threatens economic development and human security.
Michelle Anagnostou
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Trends in illegal wildlife trade: Analyzing personal baggage seizure data in the Pacific Northwest. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 The illegal import of wildlife and wildlife products is a growing concern, and the U.S. is one of the world's leading countries in the consumption and transit of illegal wildlife and their derivatives. Yet, few U.S.
Rosemary T Hitchens, April M H Blakeslee
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Summarizing the Evidence on the International Trade in Illegal Wildlife [PDF]
EcoHealth, 2010 The global trade in illegal wildlife is a multi-billion dollar industry that threatens biodiversity and acts as a potential avenue for invasive species and disease spread. Despite the broad-sweeping implications of illegal wildlife sales, scientists have yet to describe the scope and scale of the trade.
Katherine F Smith
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Illegal wildlife trade and the persistence of “plant blindness” [PDF]
Plants People Planet, 2019 Societal Impact StatementA wide variety of plant species are threatened by illegal wildlife trade (IWT), and yet plants receive scant attention in IWT policy and research, a matter of pressing global concern. This review examines how “plant blindness” manifests within policy and research on IWT, with serious and detrimental effects for biodiversity ...
Jared D Margulies +2 more
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Digital surveillance: a novel approach to monitoring the illegal wildlife trade. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 A dearth of information obscures the true scale of the global illegal trade in wildlife. Herein, we introduce an automated web crawling surveillance system developed to monitor reports on illegally traded wildlife. A resource for enforcement officials as
Amy L Sonricker Hansen +4 more
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The Fight Against Illegal Wildlife Trade
Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2011 .
A. V. Koukoushkina
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