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

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 (
Vincent Nijman, Thais Q. Morcatty, Kim Feddema, Marco Campera, K. A. I. Nekaris   +4 more
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From commitment to action: lessons from 18 transdisciplinary projects addressing health risks in wildlife trade [PDF]

One Health Outlook
Although wildlife trade is recognized as a significant driver of biodiversity loss and zoonotic disease emergence, translating global commitments into effective prevention measures remains challenging.
Hongying Li, Beate Henrichfreise, Johannes Keil, Michael Nagel, Craig Stephen, Jamie K. Reaser   +5 more
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Discussion of wildlife trade before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in professional opinion pieces and scientific articles [PDF]

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2022
Wildlife trade is a multi-billion-dollar sector that impacts a wide range of species, and thus is of significant research and conservation interest.
Yifu Wang, Hannah B. Tilley, Sagarika Phalke, Astrid A. Andersson, Caroline Dingle, Chloe E.R Hatten, Even Y.M. Leung, Derek Murphy, Kaja Wierucka, Hannah S. Mumby   +9 more
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Enhancing Wildlife Trade Monitoring in the European Union—No Need to Reinvent the Wheel [PDF]

Ecology and Evolution
Biodiversity loss is mainly driven by changes in land use and overexploitation, with the commercial trade of wildlife being a smaller but still important contributor to resource depletion and species decline.
Monica V. Biondo, Ricardo Calado
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Trading Tactics: Time to Rethink the Global Trade in Wildlife [PDF]

Animals, 2020
The Covid-19 outbreak has brought about fresh and intensified scrutiny of the wildlife trade, which substantively involves commerce in exotic pets. In response, major policy decisions involving trade bans have ensued, with calls for similar such action ...
Neil D’Cruze, Jennah Green, Angie Elwin, Jan Schmidt-Burbach   +3 more
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Preventing zoonotic spillover through regulatory frameworks governing wildlife trade: A scoping review. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
Wildlife trade can create adverse impacts for biodiversity and human health globally, including increased risks for zoonotic spillover that can lead to pandemics.
Raphael Aguiar, Ryan Gray, Eduardo Gallo-Cajiao, Arne Ruckert, Chloe Clifford Astbury, Ronald Labonté, Peter Tsasis, A M Viens, Mary Wiktorowicz   +8 more
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Wildlife Trade and Global Disease Emergence

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2005
The global trade in wildlife provides disease transmission mechanisms that not only cause human disease outbreaks but also threaten livestock, international trade, rural livelihoods, native wildlife populations, and the health of ecosystems.
William B. Karesh, Robert Cook, Elizabeth L. Bennett, James Newcomb   +3 more
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Keep your distance: Using Instagram posts to evaluate the risk of anthroponotic disease transmission in gorilla ecotourism

People and Nature, 2021
Mountain gorilla Gorilla beringei beringei trekking is a substantial source of revenue for the conservation of this threatened primate and its habitat.
Gaspard Van Hamme, Magdalena S. Svensson, Thais Q. Morcatty, K. Anne‐Isola Nekaris, Vincent Nijman   +4 more
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Wildlife Trade Policy and the Decline of Wildlife [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is the international agreement that regulates international trade in wildlife to prevent its decline. Little is known about the effectiveness of its trade restrictions and bans.
Heid, Benedikt, Márquez-Ramos, Laura
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Monitoring the Trade of Legally Protected Wildlife on Facebook and Instagram Illustrated by the Advertising and Sale of Apes in Indonesia

Diversity, 2021
Apes continue to be trafficked to meet the demand for pets or zoos. Indonesia, the most diverse country in terms of ape species, has been implicated in the global trade in gibbons, orangutans and, to a lesser degree, chimpanzees.
Vincent Nijman, Jaima H. Smith, Grace Foreman, Marco Campera, Kim Feddema, K. A. I. Nekaris   +5 more
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