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The threatened status of acipenseriform species: a summary
Environmental Biology of Fishes, 1997...increased demand has recently driven the price of black market smoked sturgeon as high as $ 26 a kilogram. With poachers standing to gain roughly a third of this price [besides the much higher price of caviar], a large fish could be worth thousands of dollars.
Vadim J. Birstein +2 more
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Effects of Land Use on Threatened Species
Conservation Biology, 2009Abstract: There is widespread agreement that biodiversity loss must be reduced, yet to alleviate threats to plant and animal species, the forces driving these losses need to be better understood. We searched for explanatory variables for threatened‐species data at the country level through land‐use information ...
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2012
Saproxylic species are one of the most threatened organism groups. As with all forest species, they are suffering from the dwindling of forests. But the habitats of saproxylic species may also be decreasing in regions where, although the forest area is currently increasing, such as in Europe, practically all forests and other wooded areas have been ...
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Saproxylic species are one of the most threatened organism groups. As with all forest species, they are suffering from the dwindling of forests. But the habitats of saproxylic species may also be decreasing in regions where, although the forest area is currently increasing, such as in Europe, practically all forests and other wooded areas have been ...
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The Threatened Species Index: Tools Supporting Australia's Threatened Species Conservation
Up-to-date and comprehensive information on population trends is crucial for many aspects of conservation planning for Australia’s threatened species, including listing processes, prioritisation analyses, and designing and evaluating the impact of conservation actions.McGrath, Sarah +2 more
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Threatened species legislation and threatened species recovery: does the former lead to the latter?
2004Vision statements and key action statements are primary and useful tools for threatened species recovery and threat abatement. In this chapter I provide a view of the necessary vision and key action statements. Listing a species or biological entity through threatened species legislation may or may not lead to its recovery, and this factor should be ...
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Threatened Species and Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems
2016Abstract This chapter examines ‘threatened species’ and ‘vulnerable marine ecosystems’ (VME) in the law of the sea. It teases out the broad-spectrum responses of international law that tackle principal anthropogenic threats, including the want of jurisdiction over marine resources, unsustainable fisheries, pollution, and habitat ...
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A treaty for threatened species
Primates, 1972Raymond F. Dasmann, Harry A. Goodwin
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