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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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A Green Criminological Exploration of Illegal Wildlife Trade in Vietnam [PDF]

, 2012
Illegal wildlife trade is a pervasive and destructive crime that is contributing to biodiversity loss and species extinction around the globe. This is particularly true in Vietnam where, it is proposed, the convergence of four factors creates the ...
Anh Cao Ngoc, Wyatt, Tanya, Tanya Wyatt, Cao Ngoc, Anh   +3 more
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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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Opinions of the public, conservationists and magistrates on sentencing wildlife trade crimes in the UK. [PDF]

, 2012
The illegal trade in wild harvested plants and animals is a significant threat to populations and species worldwide. There is concern that in many countries sanctions for wildlife trade crimes are insufficient to act as a deterrent, and do not reflect ...
St. John, Freya A.V., Edwards-Jones, Gareth, Jones, Julia P.G.   +2 more
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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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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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Global dataset for seized and non-intercepted illegal cheetah trade (Acinonyx jubatus) 2010–2019

Data in Brief, 2021
Cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) are a keystone predator of savanna systems in Africa, yet their populations have dramatically declined due to pressures such as human-wildlife conflict, loss of habitat, and most notably the illegal trade in live cheetah cubs ...
Patricia Tricorache, Shira Yashphe, Laurie Marker   +2 more
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Captive reptile mortality rates in the home and implications for the wildlife trade [PDF]

, 2015
The trade in wildlife and keeping of exotic pets is subject to varying levels of national and international regulation and is a topic often attracting controversy.
Janine E Robinson, Freya A. V. St. John (288293), Freya A V St John, Roberts, David L., Robinson, Janine E, St. John, Freya A.V., Janine E. Robinson (824311), David L Roberts, Richard A. Griffiths (142691), Richard A Griffiths, Griffiths, Richard A., David L. Roberts (397953)   +11 more
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1978 Annual Report: Wildlife Division

This document is a summary of the activities of the Wildlife Division for the period of July 1, 1977 to June 30, 1978. It includes numbers of hunting licenses, increased prices of furs, and both large and small game statistics including elk, bears ...
Oregon. Department of Fish and Wildlife
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Wildlife trade investigations benefit from multivariate stable isotope analyses. [PDF]

Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc
Prigge TL, Andersson AA, Hatten CER, Leung EYM, Baker DM, Bonebrake TC, Dingle C.   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources