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Disentangling the Legal and Illegal Wildlife Trade–Insights from Indonesian Wildlife Market Surveys [PDF]

open access: yesAnimals, 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
doaj   +6 more sources

Economic value of illegal wildlife trade entering the USA. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Media portrayal of the illegal trade in wildlife: The case of turtles in the US and implications for conservation

open access: yesPeople 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Cool cats and communities: Exploring the challenges and successes of community-based approaches to protecting felids from the illegal wildlife trade

open access: yesFrontiers in Conservation Science, 2023
Implementing community-based approaches to countering illegal wildlife trade is important to not only improve the effectiveness of strategies to protect wildlife, but also to promote equity and justice. We conducted an international exploratory review of
Aalayna R. Green   +3 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Synthesizing knowledge on crime convergence and the illegal wildlife trade

open access: yesEnvironmental 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
doaj   +3 more sources

Trends in illegal wildlife trade: Analyzing personal baggage seizure data in the Pacific Northwest. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Digital surveillance: a novel approach to monitoring the illegal wildlife trade. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Global dataset for seized and non-intercepted illegal cheetah trade (Acinonyx jubatus) 2010–2019

open access: yesData in Brief, 2021
Cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) are a keystone predator of savanna systems in Africa, yet their populations have dramatically declined due to pressures such as human-wildlife conflict, loss of habitat, and most notably the illegal trade in live cheetah cubs ...
Patricia Tricorache   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Wildlife Protection and Prevention of Illegal Wildlife Trade: Legal Framework and Challenges

open access: yesKAS African Law Study Library, 2022
This paper examines wildlife protection and prevention of illegal wildlife trade, the importance of it and the role law plays in ensuring that wildlife is protected and its illegal trade curbed.
Gloria Kembabazi
doaj   +1 more source

Quantitative Methods of Identifying the Key Nodes in the Illegal Wildlife Trade Network [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015
Nikkita G. Patel   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

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