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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

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +1 more source

Trade in hedgehogs (Mammalia: Erinaceidae) in Morocco, with an overview of their trade for medicinal purposes throughout Africa and Eurasia

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +3 more sources

Illegal pet trade on social media as an emerging impediment to the conservation of Asian otters species

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +1 more source

Opinions of the public, conservationists and magistrates on sentencing wildlife trade crimes in the UK. [PDF]

open access: yes, 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.   +2 more
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Wildlife Protection and Prevention of Illegal Wildlife Trade: Legal Framework and Challenges

open access: yesKAS 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
doaj   +1 more source

Economic incentives for the wildlife trade and costs of epidemics compared across individual, national, and global scales

open access: yesConservation 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   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Captive reptile mortality rates in the home and implications for the wildlife trade [PDF]

open access: yes, 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   +11 more
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Rhinos: economics, trade and politics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Presented at the 9th international wildlife ranching symposium: wildlife - the key to prosperity for rural communities, held on 12-16 September 2016 at Hotel Safari & the Safari Court, Windhoek, Namibia.At the forthcoming CITES Conference of Parties the ...
International Wildlife Ranching Symposium, publisher   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Global dataset for seized and non-intercepted illegal cheetah trade (Acinonyx jubatus) 2010–2019

open access: yesData 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   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Wildlife crime : The problems of enforcement [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Environmental and wildlife crime appear recently to be benefitting from an increasing profile amongst those agencies tasked with their control, as well as receiving growing criminological attention. Despite this, those with responsibilities in this area
Wellsmith, Melanie, Melanie Wellsmith
core   +1 more source

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