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Typologies of urban wildlife traffickers and sellers

open access: yesGlobal Ecology and Conservation, 2021
Urban wildmeat consumption can contribute to significant declines in wildlife populations, ecosystem function, and food insecurity security. Describing types of individuals involved in illegal urban wildmeat trafficking can help distinguish ordinary ...
Meredith L. Gore   +5 more
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Wildlife Trafficking between the European Union and Mexico

open access: yesInternational 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
doaj   +1 more source

I. Poaching, Wildlife Trafficking and Human Security [PDF]

open access: yesWhitehall Papers, 2016
Human security and underdevelopment are increasingly common themes in public debates about the security threat posed by poaching and wildlife trafficking. Most frequently highlighted are the ways in which these activities can exacerbate poverty by stripping local communities of the wildlife that tourists will pay to see.
Duffy, R.V., Humphreys, J.
openaire   +2 more sources

Where there’s smoke there is fire: Türkiye and the international illegal wildlife trade [PDF]

open access: yesNature Conservation
Humans have been exploiting natural ecosystems and their resources, driving many species to extinction at the expense of global human health, the welfare of wild animals, and the integrity of Earth’s ecosystems.
Özgün Emre Can
doaj   +3 more sources

Wanted: A systematic review of the most trafficked songbirds in a Neotropical hotspot

open access: yesFrontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2023
The illegal wildlife trade is one of the main factors of biodiversity loss worldwide. Brazil, the largest country in South America, is a hub of wildlife trafficking, but availability of information on the issue is constrained to specific regions and to ...
Giuliana C. P. Ferrari   +4 more
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Profiling Volatilomes: A Novel Forensic Method for Identification of Confiscated Illegal Wildlife Items

open access: yesSeparations, 2020
Globally, the rapid decline in wildlife species has many causes. The illegal trafficking of fauna and flora is a major contributor to species decline and continues to grow at an alarming rate.
Maiken Ueland   +5 more
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Trading species to extinction: evidence of extinction linked to the wildlife trade

open access: yesCambridge Prisms: Extinction, 2023
The link between unsustainable harvest of species for the wildlife trade and extinction is clear in some cases, but little is known about the number of species across taxonomic groups that have gone extinct because of trade-related factors, or future ...
Amy Hinsley   +5 more
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Wildlife institutions highly salient to human attitudes toward wildlife

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, 2023
Efforts to promote human‐wildlife coexistence may be overly focused on wildlife‐related costs and benefits. We conducted research in Mozambique to gain insights into how governance of wildlife influences potential for human‐wildlife coexistence ...
Leandra Merz   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

National illegal wildlife trafficking of threatened species: a descriptive study in Manabí (Ecuador)

open access: yesLa Granja: Revista de Ciencias de la Vida, 2021
Illegal wildlife trafficking has negative effects on biodiversity conservation at both global and local scale. Therefore, the establishment of appropriate conservation measures requires local studies that quantify this problem. The objective of this work
Sofía Crespo-Gascón   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Conservation Amid COVID-19 Pandemic: Ecotourism Collapse Threatens Communities and Wildlife in Morocco [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2020
COVID-19 pandemic has had huge impacts on multiple industries and sectors, not just ecotourism and wildlife protection in Morocco. Ecological health and wildlife are a critical resource for the country’s tourism sector recovery.
Cherkaoui SidiImad   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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