Wildlife farming: Balancing economic and conservation interests in the face of illegal wildlife trade

D Meeks, O Morton, DP Edwards - People and Nature, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Demand for wildlife and their products continues to grow, often despite increasingly
militarised regulation and consumer awareness campaigns. We review the sustainability …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the effects of market scarcity on consumers' demand for rarity in the wildlife trade

A Hausmann, G Cortés-Capano, E Di Minin - Global Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Consumers' preferences for rarity in the wildlife trade can potentially lead to unsustainable
exploitation of species in the wild, further increasing their desirability and price in the market …

[HTML][HTML] Wildlife trade shifts from brick-and-mortar markets to virtual marketplaces: A case study of birds of prey trade in Thailand

P Siriwat, V Nijman - Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

Spatio-temporal dynamics of consumer demand driving the Asian Songbird Crisis

H Marshall, NJ Collar, AC Lees, A Moss, P Yuda… - Biological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Many South-East Asian bird species are in rapid decline due to offtake for the cage-
bird trade, a phenomenon driven largely by consumption in Indonesia and labelled the …

Opportunistic or non-random wildlife crime? Attractiveness rather than abundance in the wild leads to selective parrot poaching

P Romero-Vidal, F Hiraldo, F Rosseto, G Blanco… - Diversity, 2020 - mdpi.com
Illegal wildlife trade, which mostly focuses on high-demand species, constitutes a major
threat to biodiversity. However, whether poaching is an opportunistic crime within high …

Risk of viral infectious diseases from live bats, primates, rodents and carnivores for sale in Indonesian wildlife markets

TQ Morcatty, PER Pereyra, A Ardiansyah, MA Imron… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
Southeast Asia is considered a global hotspot of emerging zoonotic diseases. There, wildlife
is commonly traded under poor sanitary conditions in open markets; these markets have …

Popularity of pet otters on YouTube: evidence of an emerging trade threat

L Harrington, D Macdonald, N D'Cruze - Nature Conservation, 2019 - ora.ox.ac.uk
In response to growing reports of otters in the pet trade, and suggestions that the popularity
of pet otters on social media may be driving demand, we collated YouTube videos of pet …

[PDF][PDF] Conservation of long-tailed macaques: Implications of the updated IUCN status and the COVID-19 pandemic

MF Hansen, M Gill, VA Nawangsari… - Primate …, 2021 - theltmproject.org
The often synanthropic long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) is listed in Appendix II of
CITES and was recently updated to Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. The update was …

It's in the news: Characterising Indonesia's wild bird trade network from media-reported seizure incidents

K Indraswari, RS Friedman, R Noske… - Biological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Devising strategic conservation plans to curb Indonesia's wild bird trade is pivotal to protect
species. However, limited understanding of nation-wide trade network patterns could hinder …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing preferences and motivations for owning exotic pets: Care matters

A Hausmann, G Cortés-Capano, I Fraser… - Biological Conservation, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding drivers of demand for exotic pets may help inform adequate conservation
strategies to address unsustainable trade. Here, we used a best-worst scaling approach to …