Literature review of the use of birds as pets in Latin-America, with a detailed perspective on Mexico

B Roldán-Clarà, X López-Medellín… - Ethnobiology and …, 2014 - ethnobioconservation.com
A large amount of birds are harvested from the natural environment for the pet market. This
trade is a conservation issue and an economic income for many people, two aspects not …

Uncertainty and adaptive management for biodiversity conservation

DA Keith, TG Martin, E McDonald-Madden… - Biological …, 2011 - Elsevier
Adaptive management of natural resources is widely supported, but in biodiversity
conservation there have been few practical applications of the approach in its entirety. Some …

Illegal and legal parrot trade shows a long-term, cross-cultural preference for the most attractive species increasing their risk of extinction

JL Tella, F Hiraldo - PLoS One, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Illegal trade constitutes a major threat for a variety of wildlife. A criminology framework has
been recently applied to parrot poaching in Mexico, suggesting an opportunistic crime in …

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 …

A literature synthesis of actions to tackle illegal parrot trade

A Sánchez-Mercado, JR Ferrer-Paris, JP Rodríguez… - Diversity, 2021 - mdpi.com
The order Psittaciformes is one of the most prevalent groups in the illegal wildlife trade.
Efforts to understand this threat have focused on describing the elements of the trade itself …

Learning in adaptive management: insights from published practice

C Fabricius, G Cundill - Ecology and Society, 2014 - JSTOR
Adaptive management is often advocated as a solution to understanding and managing
complexity in social-ecological systems. Given the centrality of learning in adaptive …

Nest site selection and efficacy of artificial nests for breeding success of Scarlet Macaws Ara macao macao in lowland Peru

G Olah, G Vigo, R Heinsohn, DJ Brightsmith - Journal for Nature …, 2014 - Elsevier
Psittacidae (parrots) have the most threatened species of any bird family in the world. Most
parrots are obligate secondary cavity nesters, and can be limited in their breeding success …

Confounding rules can hinder conservation: Disparities in law regulation on domestic and international parrot trade within and among neotropical countries

P Romero-Vidal, M Carrete, F Hiraldo, G Blanco… - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Wildlife trade represents one of the main causes of biodiversity loss
worldwide. In an attempt to control this practice, both international and national legislation …

Conservation conflicts: future research challenges

RJ Gutiérrez, KA Wood, SM Redpath… - Current trends in wildlife …, 2016 - Springer
It has been long known that wildlife management is often more about working with people
than with wildlife (Gilbert 1971). Much of this people management occurs as top down …

Using peoples' perceptions to improve conservation programs: The Yellow-shouldered Amazon in Venezuela

A Sánchez-Mercado, O Blanco, B Sucre-Smith… - Diversity, 2020 - mdpi.com
The perceptions and attitudes of local communities help understand the social drivers of
unsustainable wildlife use and the social acceptability of conservation programs. We …