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Extent of the impact of the Chinese wildlife trade on the world's wildlife

open access: yesProceedings of the 5th European Congress of Conservation Biology, 2018
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The gravity of wildlife trade

Biological Conservation, 2018
(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Unsustainable trade in wildlife products both legally and illegally is a leading cause of population declines and increased extinction risk in commercially valuable species. However due to the clandestine nature of illegal trade and paucity of overarching studies of legal trade our understanding on ...
William S Symes   +2 more
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Wildlife trade

Current Biology, 2021
Global trade of wildlife is a major driver of species decline. The trade in wildlife actually plays a much larger role in our daily lives than many people realize, and its use and legality are surprisingly complex. Wildlife trade includes the trade of any organism, including fungi, plants and animals, sourced from the wild.
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Wildlife, biodiversity and trade

Environment and Development Economics, 1997
This article develops a model of wild-resource exploitation that includes both the standard bioeconomic properties of growth and harvesting and a species-area relationship linked to habitat conversion. The model is developed for both a closed and an open economy.
Edward Barbier, Carl–Erik Schulz
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The trade in wildlife

2023
Abstract This chapter focuses on the challenge of wildlife trade in biodiversity conservation. Reducing the undesirable aspects of the wildlife trade boils down to reducing their unsustainable supply or demand. That an aspect of wildlife trade is legal does not guarantee that it is sustainable, nor sufficiently safeguards animals ...
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Impacts of wildlife trade on terrestrial biodiversity

Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2021
The wildlife trade is worth billions of dollars annually and affects most major taxonomic groups. Despite this, a global understanding of the trade's impacts on species populations is lacking. We performed a quantitative meta-analysis of the wildlife trade that synthesized 506 species-level effect sizes from 31 studies, estimating trade-driven declines
Oscar Morton   +3 more
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Redesigning the Wildlife Trade System

Science, 2009
K. F. Smith et al. 's Policy Forum (“Reducing the risks of the wildlife trade,” 1 May, p. [594][1]) aptly proposes the need for a priori restrictions to be placed on newly traded wildlife species to predetermine their environmental, health, and economic impacts.
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Wildlife Trading in Vietnam

The Journal of Environment & Development, 2008
This report provides data on the logistics, scope, and economics of the illegal trade in wildlife in Vietnam. It analyses the main reasons for the rapid growth in this trade and highlights key failures in the country's attempts to control it. This report recommends that the government should strengthen the capacity of the agencies responsible for ...
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Wildlife and trade

2010
Introduction Over the past two decades the interrelationship between multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) containing trade-related environmental measures (TREMs) and trade agreements has received considerable attention. The purpose of this chapter is not to revisit this wider, and well-documented, ‘trade and environment debate’, but rather to
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The Illegal Wildlife Trade

2016
AbstractThe illegal wildlife trade is a growing problem driven by a number of factors (e.g. subsistence, alternative medicine, accessories, the pet trade). High demand for illicit wildlife products is threatening the existence of many of the most-endangered species.
Stephen F. Pires, William D. Moreto
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