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Wildlife Trade and Human Health in Lao PDR: An Assessment of the Zoonotic Disease Risk in Markets. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
Although the majority of emerging infectious diseases can be linked to wildlife sources, most pathogen spillover events to people could likely be avoided if transmission was better understood and practices adjusted to mitigate risk.
Zoe F Greatorex, Sarah H Olson, Sinpakone Singhalath, Soubanh Silithammavong, Kongsy Khammavong, Amanda E Fine, Wendy Weisman, Bounlom Douangngeun, Watthana Theppangna, Lucy Keatts, Martin Gilbert, William B Karesh, Troy Hansel, Susan Zimicki, Kathleen O'Rourke, Damien O Joly, Jonna A K Mazet   +16 more
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Wildlife trade and endangered species protection [PDF]

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2004
Markets for endangered species potentially generate incentives for both legal supply and poaching. To deter poaching, governments can spend on enforcement or increase legal harvesting to reduce the return from poaching. A leader–follower commitment game is developed to examine these choices in the presence of illegal harvesting and the resulting ...
Missios, Paul C.
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Wildlife Trafficking between the European Union and Mexico [PDF]

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2019
Illegal wildlife trade or wildlife trafficking is a global threat to all kinds of species, not just charismatic megafauna or wildlife in Africa and Asia.
Inés Arroyo-Quiroz, Tanya Wyatt
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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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Wildlife trade investigations benefit from multivariate stable isotope analyses [PDF]

Biological Reviews
Caroline Dingle
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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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Medicine, black magic and supernatural beings: Cultural rituals as a significant threat to slender lorises in India

People and Nature, 2022
Trade of wildlife for use in traditional medicines, rituals, magical spells and cultural practices occurs globally and has been studied mostly in Africa and Asia.
Smitha D. Gnanaolivu, Marco Campera, K. Anne‐Isola Nekaris, Vincent Nijman, Roopa Satish, Sharath Babu, Mewa Singh   +6 more
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Illegal wildlife trade, seizures and prosecutions: A 7.5-year analysis of trade in pig-nosed turtles Carettochelys insculpta in and from Indonesia

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020
The illegal wildlife trade is increasingly recognised as a major threat to biodiversity conservation, and one way of curbing it is to properly enforce existing legislation and where appropriate to prosecute to the full extent of the law.
Chris R. Shepherd, Lalita Gomez, Vincent Nijman   +2 more
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