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Large-Scale Trade in a Songbird That Is Extinct in the Wild

Diversity, 2021
Indonesia is at the epicenter of the Asian Songbird Crisis, i.e., the recognition that the cage bird trade has a devastating impact on numerous imperiled bird species in Asia.
Vincent Nijman, Marco Campera, Ahmad Ardiansyah, Michela Balestri, Hani R. El Bizri, Budiadi Budiadi, Tungga Dewi, Katherine Hedger, Rifqi Hendrik, Muhammad Ali Imron, Abdullah Langgeng, Thais Q. Morcatty, Ariana V. Weldon, K. A. I. Nekaris   +13 more
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CITES and beyond: Illuminating 20 years of global, legal wildlife trade

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021
Nature has the potential to provide wide-ranging economic contributions to society – from ecosystem services to providing income to communities via fair trade of resources.
Astrid Alexandra Andersson, Hannah B. Tilley, Wilson Lau, David Dudgeon, Timothy C. Bonebrake, Caroline Dingle   +5 more
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Zoos consenting to the illegal wildlife trade – the earless monitor lizard as a case study [PDF]

Nature Conservation, 2021
The illegal wildlife trade has direct relevance for zoo management, animal acquisition and disposition and it has no place in modern zoo management. Zoos must not only act within the law of the country in which it is based, but they should also follow ...
Vincent Nijman
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Wildlife trade shifts from brick-and-mortar markets to virtual marketplaces: A case study of birds of prey trade in Thailand

Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 2020
The shift of wildlife trade from brick-and-mortar markets to virtual online marketplaces is reported using the trade of birds of prey (raptors) in Thailand from 1968 to 2019 as a case study.
Penthai Siriwat, Vincent Nijman
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Illegal Wildlife Trade: Trade Flows of Wildlife Products and Facilitation Methods in the Ruaha Landscape, Tanzania

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
Mrosso, Hillary Thomas, Kicheleri, Rose Peter, Kashaigili, Japhet Joel, Munishi, Pantaleo, Kadigi, Reuben Mpuya Joseph, Mgeni, Charles Peter, Kimaro, Michael Honorati   +6 more
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Trade in hedgehogs (Mammalia: Erinaceidae) in Morocco, with an overview of their trade for medicinal purposes throughout Africa and Eurasia

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2015
Hedgehogs are traded locally and often in relatively small num--bers throughout Eurasia and Africa.  We here report on the trade in North African Hedgehog Atelerix algirus and to a smaller extent possibly the Desert Hedgehog Paraechinus aethiopicus in ...
Vincent Nijman, Daniel Bergin
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Illegal pet trade on social media as an emerging impediment to the conservation of Asian otters species

Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 2018
Social media has become an increasingly popular platform to trade legal and illegal wildlife. Here, we evaluate the online trade of otters, a group of globally threatened taxa in Thailand, a country of high global social media use.
Penthai Siriwat, Vincent Nijman
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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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Mischaracterizing wildlife trade and its impacts may mislead policy processes

Conservation Letters, 2022
Overexploitation is a key driver of biodiversity loss but the relationship between the use and trade of species and conservation outcomes is not always straightforward.
Daniel W.S. Challender, Dan Brockington, Amy Hinsley, Michael Hoffmann, Jonathan E. Kolby, Francis Massé, Daniel J.D. Natusch, Thomasina E.E. Oldfield, Willow Outhwaite, Michael ’t Sas‐Rolfes, E.J. Milner‐Gulland   +10 more
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Economic incentives for the wildlife trade and costs of epidemics compared across individual, national, and global scales

Conservation Science and Practice, 2022
The wildlife trade drives biodiversity loss and zoonotic disease emergence, and the health and economic impacts of COVID‐19 have sparked discussions over stricter regulation of the wildlife trade. Yet regulation for conservation and health purposes is at
Luz A. deWit, Brendan Fisher, Robin Naidoo, Taylor H. Ricketts   +3 more
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