Human exploitation of wildlife for food, medicine, curios, aphrodisiacs, and spiritual artifacts
represents a mounting 21st‐century conservation challenge. Here, we provide the first …

Aim We provide a global assessment of the current legal direct take of marine turtles,
including the scale and species breakdown at country level, and investigate the significance …

Harvesting pressure on Asian freshwater turtles is severe, and dramatic population declines
of these turtles are being driven by unsustainable collection for food markets, pet trade, and …

Fisheries bycatch is considered the most serious threat globally to long‐lived marine
megafauna (eg, mammals, birds, turtles, elasmobranchs). However, bycatch assessments to …

Illegal wildlife trade can threaten biodiversity and economic development. Criminal
enterprises may add wildlife products to their list of illicit goods by using established trade …

The chelonian fauna of West Africa is relatively understudied and experiencing a multitude
of threats. Moreover, the IUCN Red List status of several African species is both outdated …

Turtle trade in the fish markets of Alexandria was reported up to the late 1990s, motivating
conservation initiatives and enforcement of legal protection. To assess the current trade and …

China has one of the world's most diverse freshwater turtle faunas but is also a major
consumer of freshwater turtles. In the 1980s over-collecting, illegal trade and habitat …

Evaluating mortality of rare marine megafauna is crucial for conservation planning, but
logistically difficult to undertake at sea. From 2006 to 2008 we assessed mortality of …

Background Resolving threats to widely distributed marine megafauna requires definition of
the geographic distributions of both the threats as well as the population unit (s) of interest …