Mischaracterizing wildlife trade and its impacts may mislead policy processes

DWS Challender, D Brockington, A Hinsley… - Conservation …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Overexploitation is a key driver of biodiversity loss but the relationship between the use and
trade of species and conservation outcomes is not always straightforward. Accurately …

Post-mortem dental profile as a powerful tool in animal forensic investigations—a review

J Viciano, S López-Lázaro, C Tanga - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Teeth are the hardest anatomical structure of the animal body. As a result,
even when preservation conditions are extremely poor and the rest of the skeleton …

Assessing the illegal hunting of native wildlife in China

D Liang, X Giam, S Hu, L Ma, DS Wilcove - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Illegal harvesting and trading of wildlife have become major threats to global biodiversity
and public health,–. Although China is widely recognized as an important destination for …

Mapping the research landscape on poaching: A decadal systematic review

VM Lavadinović, CA Islas, MK Chatakonda… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Poaching is a widespread activity that affects wildlife management goals and undermines
conservation efforts worldwide. Despite its complexity, poaching is still commonly addressed …

Trading animal lives: ten tricky issues on the road to protecting commodified wild animals

DW Macdonald, LA Harrington, TP Moorhouse… - …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Wildlife commodification can generate benefits for biodiversity conservation, but it also has
negative impacts; overexploitation of wildlife is currently one of the biggest drivers of …

Spatial heterogeneity and socioeconomic transformation challenge the prevention of illegal wildlife consumption in China

Q Ni, G Yu, V Nijman, KAI Nekaris, H Xu, M Zhang… - Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wildlife can be viewed as a renewable resource at ecologically viable levels, but illicit
consumption is a major threat to global biodiversity. Using data from crime cases is an …

[HTML][HTML] Global online trade in primates for pets

V Nijman, TQ Morcatty, HR El Bizri, H Al-Razi… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
The trade in primates as pets is a global enterprise and as access to the Internet has
increased, so too has the trade of live primates online. While quantifying primate trade in …

Automated retrieval of information on threatened species from online sources using machine learning

R Kulkarni, E Di Minin - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As resources for conservation are limited, gathering and analysing information from digital
platforms can help investigate the global biodiversity crisis in a cost‐efficient manner …

Evaluating the reliability of media reports for gathering information about illegal wildlife trade seizures

K Paudel, A Hinsley, D Veríssimo, E Milner-Gulland - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
Illegal wildlife trade (IWT) is threatening many species across the world. It is important to
better understand the scale and characteristics of IWT to inform conservation priorities and …

Domestic networks contribute to the diversity and composition of live wildlife trafficked in urban markets in Peru

AP Mendoza, S Shanee, N Cavero… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Amazonian countries have historically sourced the international wildlife trade. However, little
is known about their domestic trade, which is often overlooked in estimates of trafficking …