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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 ...
Meredith Gore +2 more
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Open Journal of Ecology, 2022 Tanzania’s Ruaha landscape is prominent for its potential wildlife resources, which play a key role in sustaining the economy and livelihoods of the people. However, most of these resources are illegally obtained and traded in different places within and outside the Ruaha landscape. Due to its illegal nature, most of the important information regarding
Charles Peter Mgeni
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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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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 ...
Jacob Phelps +2 more
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Disentangling the Legal and Illegal Wildlife Trade–Insights from Indonesian Wildlife Market Surveys
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 (
K A I Nekaris, Thaïs Morcatty
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The Fight Against Illegal Wildlife Trade
Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2011 .
A. V. Koukoushkina
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Global dataset for seized and non-intercepted illegal cheetah trade (Acinonyx jubatus) 2010–2019
Data 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
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Wildlife Protection and Prevention of Illegal Wildlife Trade: Legal Framework and Challenges
KAS 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
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