Home and hub: pet trade and traditional medicine impact reptile populations in source locations and destinations. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2022 The pet trade and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) consumption are major drivers of global biodiversity loss. Tokay geckos (Gekko gecko) are among the most traded reptile species worldwide. In Hong Kong, pet and TCM markets sell tokay geckos while wild
Dufour PC +9 more
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More than we bargained for: Zebra mussels transported amongst European native freshwater snails [PDF]
NeoBiota, 2023 The international pet trade is a major driver of non-native species spread, including species both sold in the trade, and organisms incidentally transported alongside.
James W. E. Dickey +5 more
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The first record of an invasive reptile species, Pelomedusa cf. olivacea (Schweigger, 1812) (Pelomedusidae, Testudines), in the wild of South Korea [PDF]
Check List, 2022 Invasive species are of global conservation concern. South Korea is also facing the same challenge, especially, due to the growing pet trade. Herein, we report Pelomedusa cf.
Seung-Min Park +3 more
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Exploring media representation of the exotic pet trade, with a focus on welfare: taxonomic, framing and language biases in peer-reviewed publications and newspaper articles [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceJon Bielby, Gail E Austen
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Global online trade in primates for pets [PDF]
Environmental Development, 2023 The trade in primates as pets is a global enterprise and as access to the Internet has increased, so too has the trade of live primates online. While quantifying primate trade in physical markets is relatively straightforward, limited insights have been made into trade via the Internet.
Vincent Nijman +32 more
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Australia’s wish list of exotic pets: biosecurity and conservation implications of desired alien and illegal pet species [PDF]
NeoBiota, 2020 Globalisation of the live pet trade facilitates major pathways for the transport and introduction of invasive alien species across longer distances and at higher frequencies than previously possible.
Adam Toomes +4 more
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Exotic animal cafes are increasingly home to threatened biodiversity
Conservation Letters, 2021 Exploitation of species for wildlife trade, including the demand for exotic pets (likely sourced from the wild or recent generations of captivity) is a major threat to biodiversity.
Sharne E. McMillan +3 more
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Trade-off of accuracy, compression rate, and speed on IWSLT’14 DE→EN.
, 2023 PET shows the best trade-off between accuracy and compression rate. Also, PET gives the best trade-off between accuracy and inference speed.
Hyojin Jeon (2111560) +3 more
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Pet primates for sale in the United States.
PLoS ONE, 2021 Our research goal was to investigate the primate pet trade in the United States. While dogs and cats are the most common type of pet, there are an estimated 15,000 pet primates in the United States and the demand for exotic pets in general has been ...
Melissa S Seaboch, Sydney N Cahoon
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Captive reptile mortality rates in the home and implications for the wildlife trade [PDF]
, 2015 The trade in wildlife and keeping of exotic pets is subject to varying levels of national and international regulation and is a topic often attracting controversy.
Janine E Robinson +11 more
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