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Opium Cultivation Imperilling Endangered Species in Northern Laos
Animal Conservation, EarlyView.To avoid government eradication efforts, farmers in northeastern Laos shifted opium cultivation deep into a national park, causing a > 1000% increase in protected forest cleared for the crop between 2018 and 2022. This displacement directly threatened endangered species like white‐cheeked gibbons, elephants, and dholes by causing a rise in hunting ...
Jay White +3 more
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Animal Conservation, EarlyView.Rapid assessment of the delayed impacts of fires on endangered species is essential for accurately guiding conservation efforts. After the fire, surviving Hermann's tortoises (Testudo hermanni) showed only minor behavior alterations, and burnt habitats continued to provide them with essential resources.
Clément Guénier +12 more
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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020 The Indian pangolin (Manis crassicaudata) is the only pangolin species present in Sri Lanka. Growing concerns over international trading and trafficking of pangolins and the recent listing of all eight extant pangolin species in Appendix I of CITES have ...
Priyan Perera, Hasitha Karawita
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Animal Conservation, EarlyView.Wild‐sourced wildlife trade is not only increasing in volume but also changing in network structure. Using three decades of CITES trade records, we found that the wild‐sourced wildlife trade has become increasingly connected and taxonomically uneven, with Anthozoa contributing a growing share.
Jing Wang +3 more
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, 2022 reservedThe Temminck’s pangolin, one of the eight pangolin species, lives in South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe and is currently listed in the IUCN red list as Vulnerable. This nocturnal mammal is covered in keratinous scales, which
GUGLIELMIN, ELENA
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Acta Zoologica, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The order Xenarthra presents unique morphophysiological adaptations related to its specialized ecological niches. This study investigates the functional morphology and comparative myology of the thoracic limb in Cyclopes didactylus (silky anteater) and Tamandua tetradactyla (southern tamandua) to elucidate how muscle arrangements support ...
Julia Vaz Feio +3 more
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alessandrofelder/pangolin: article-submission
, 2017 The collection of R scripts I used for scaling analysis and phylogenetically independent contrasts in my PhD ...
Alessandro Felder
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The Global Trade in Pangolin Species from Asia and Africa [PDF]
, 2020 Global pangolin trafficking is a major conservation concern, threatening the eight extant pangolin species (Order: Pholidota, Family: Manidae). Most demand for pangolins is coming from Asian countries and in particular from China and Vietnam.
Heinrich, Sarah
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A probable Pleistocene pangolin (Order: Pholidota) trackway from South Africa’s Cape south coast
South African Journal of ScienceA fossil trackway, attributed to a probable pangolin trackmaker, has been identified on a Pleistocene aeolianite surface of the Waenhuiskrans Formation in the Bosbokfontein Private Nature Reserve on South Africa’s Cape south coast. The trackway consists
Charles W. Helm +7 more
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