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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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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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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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A Review of the Trade in Toucans (Ramphastidae): Levels of Trade in Species, Source and Sink Countries, Effects from Governance Actions and Conservation Concerns

Conservation, 2023
Utilising wildlife as natural resources has a long history and wide appeal for many nations, while seeking international wildlife that is sustainably managed is the primary responsibility of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of ...
Angus I. Carpenter, Jennifer Slade
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Determining the sustainability of legal wildlife trade

Journal of Environmental Management, 2023
Exploitation of wildlife represents one of the greatest threats to species survival according to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. Whilst detrimental impacts of illegal trade are well recognised, legal trade is often equated to being sustainable despite the lack of evidence or data in the majority of ...
Alice C. Hughes, Mark Auliya, Sandra Altherr, Brett R. Scheffers, Jordi Janssen, Vincent Nijman, Chris R. Shepherd, Neil D'Cruze, Emerson Sy, David P. Edwards   +9 more
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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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Dataset of seized wildlife and their intended uses

Data in Brief, 2021
The illegal wildlife trade (IWT) threatens conservation and biosecurity efforts. The Internet has greatly facilitated the trade of wildlife, and researchers have increasingly examined the Internet to uncover illegal trade. However, most efforts to locate
Oliver C. Stringham, Stephanie Moncayo, Eilish Thomas, Sarah Heinrich, Adam Toomes, Jacob Maher, Katherine G.W. Hill, Lewis Mitchell, Joshua V. Ross, Chris R. Shepherd, Phillip Cassey   +10 more
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