Simple Summary In South Africa, thousands of African lions are bred on farms for
commercial purposes, such as tourism, trophy hunting, and traditional medicine. Lions on …

Addressing the global extent of the current biodiversity crisis requires engaging with the
existence of multiple equally legitimate values, but also with diverse ethical perspectives …

Our review of the CITES trade database confirmed that the ball python is the most exported
species by Togo; with 1,657,814 live individuals–comprising 60% of all live reptiles …

Tigers are indisputably in danger of extinction due to habitat loss and demand for their parts.
Tigers are extirpated in the wild from every country bar one in mainland East and Southeast …

The global trade in wildlife is a threat to species conservation and animal welfare. A key
driver is demand for traditional medicines (TMs). We present an initial experimental survey …

A controversial, multifaceted debate surrounds the trade in commercially captive-bred
(farmed) lion skeletons. A prominent topic relates to relative preferences for tiger and lion …

Commercial captive breeding and trade in body parts of threatened wild carnivores is an
issue of significant concern to conservation scientists and policy-makers. Following a 2016 …

Simple Summary Acting to preserve biodiversity can involve harming individual animals. It
has recently been argued that conventional practice has placed too much emphasis on the …

Illegal trade in big cat (Panthera spp.) body parts is a prominent topic in scientific and public
discourses concerning wildlife conservation. While illegal trade is generally acknowledged …

From 2008 to 2018, South Africa permitted the export of captive-bred African lion (Panthera
leo) skeletons to Southeast Asia under CITES Appendix II. Legal exports rose from …