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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Wildlife trade"”.
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Wildlife trade in Latin America: people, economy and conservation
Wildlife trade is among the main threats to biodiversity conservation and may pose a risk to human health because of the spread of zoonotic diseases. To avoid social, economic and environmental consequences of illegal trade, it is crucial to understand the factors influencing the wildlife market …
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Wildlife Trade in Morocco: Use, Conservation, Laws and Welfare
… absent entirely. Available data from the legal trade combined with surveys of legal and illegal trade can give an insight into the species that are being targeted, the numbers in which they are being removed from the wild, the reasons for which they are traded and can highlight conservation, …
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The dynamics of the online wildlife trade in mammalian species on Instagram and Facebook in Indonesia
The wildlife trade is an ongoing issue for wildlife, conservationists, and law enforcement around the world and it stimulates billions of dollars each year mostly illegally. This thesis focuses on the online wildlife trade (OWT) and the dynamics behind the developed system that is rapidly growing …
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INVESTIGATION INTO THE INDIVIDUAL AND COMBINED IMPACTS OF WILDLIFE TRADE AND HABITAT LOSS ON BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION INTERVENTIONS INTHE TROPICS
… environmental change and biodiversity decline, wildlife trade and habitat loss. My first data chapter explores how socio-economic factors undermine protected areas by studying the spatial occurrence of protected area downgrading, downsizing and degazettement. Next, I apply a …
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Wildlife Trade in the Digital Age: The Role of the Internet in Monitoring the Trade in Wild Plants and Animals in Thailand
The legal and illegal trade in wildlife is a multi-dollar industry that has detrimental impacts on species biodiversity, especially exacerbated in the 21st century as a result of increased globalisation and Internet accessibility. In this thesis, I aim to develop the understanding of wildlife trade …
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The prevalence of documentation discrepancies in CITES (Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) trade data for Appendix I and II species exported out of Africa between the years 2003 and 2012
The international trade in wildlife products is an extremely profitable industry, and is linked to many environmental, social, economic and political problems. The Convention on the International Trade of Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is a non-self-executing multilateral treaty …
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Human networks of tetrapod translocations in the Western Cape, South Africa: trends and potential impacts on biodiversity
Global trends show an increase in wildlife trade associated with the process of globalisation and increased international trade. In addition, biodiversity managers are increasingly turning to species translocations to achieve conservation goals. These human induced movements of wildlife have a …
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The need for harmonisation of wildlife crime laws in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) A case study of the illicit abalone trade
The illicit wildlife trade (IWT) is the fourth most lucrative form of organised crime globally (Donnenfeld & Aucoin, 2017:1). The Global Financial Integrity (GFI) reports that IWT is one of the most profitable and illicit economies with a profit margin of US$ 23 billion annually (May, 2017:np). It …
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Investigating Access to Wildlife and Other Natural Resources in the Urbanizing Amazon
… and quantity of wildmeat consumption, barter trade, and monetary trade across rural, peri-urban, and urban areas in the Brazilian Amazon. Through an indirect questioning technique, we surveyed 782 randomly selected households in Manaus and Carauari. We revealed substantial wildlife use …
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Making markets work for people, climate, and nature: applied development economics for biodiversity conservation and climate change
… UK government's Darwin Initiative and Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund with the gold standard of "Market Systems Development" programming in the economic development field. We find most conservation projects to adopt outdated models of direct aid delivery that fall short of best practice …
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The Cocaine-Wildlife Connection: Crime Convergence in Central America
This thesis analyzes the illegal wildlife trade in Central America and its connections to cocaine trafficking in protected areas by conducting a comparative study of Costa Rica and Guatemala. Recent scholarship on conservation crime suggests that illicit markets and trade networks intersect in …
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External actors, high value resources and threatened species: shark fin commodity chains of Northern Madagascar, interception for conservation
Wildlife trade threatens many exploited populations with unsustainable levels of extraction. The shark fin trade is perceived as a primary driver in the decline of many shark populations. The targeting of sharks by local fisheries to feed the demand for shark fins is contributing significantly to …
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Identifying and understanding consumers of wild animal products in Hanoi, Vietnam: implications for conservation management
… is an established thoroughfare for illegal wildlife trade, and rapidly growing urban prosperity is increasing domestic demand for wild animal products. Consumer-targeted interventions, including awareness campaigns and social marketing, and supply-side approaches such as wildlife farming to …
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The application of a PCR based species identification method to African wildlife
… become increasingly necessary as incidents of wildlife poaching, illegal meat trade and the trade of wildlife products has increased. The current methods of species identification tend to be expensive, time consuming and unreliable. The use of species-specific primers designed to bind to …
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Poaching of encephalartos transvenosus, in the Limpopo Province, South Africa
… poached for traditional medicine, ornamental and wildlife trade purposes. The study was conducted in nature reserves in the Limpopo Province which are: Mphaphuli Nature Reserve which is in the Vhembe district and is 1 300 ha in area, Modjadji Nature Reserve which is 350 ha and located in Bolobedu …
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The Asian Palm Civet: Fundamental Baseline Findings in Ecology, Captive Husbandry and Effects of Trade in Civet Coffee
Global wildlife population trends are being depleted due to wildlife trade, habitat loss, anthropogenic activities and climate change and only a few of the treats to named species reach global awareness. In respect to mammalian carnivores these tend to be the large charismatic species such as …
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Characterising pangolin trade in China from a social science perspective
The demand for wildlife products around the world is growing rapidly according to various researches. As a result, trade in, and consumption of, wildlife products has become a major threat to global biodiversity. Pangolins are currently recognised as one of the most trafficked mammalian taxa …
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Evaluation of landscape level habitat characteristics of golden eagle habitat in Northwestern Mexico
… shooting and trapping, and poaching for illegal wildlife trade. Mexican experts believe that a dramatic decline occurred over recent decades and that the remaining pairs have been restricted to remnant suitable habitat patches (SEMARNAP-INE 1999). Long-term survival of golden eagles largely …
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CHROMOSOME-LEVEL DE NOVO GENOME ASSEMBLIES OF AVIAN SPECIES AND THEIR RELEVANCE FOR COMPARATIVE GENOMICS, PANGENOMICS, POPULATION GENOMICS AND SPECIES CONSERVATION.
… by anthropogenic habitat destruction, illegal wildlife trade, overfishing, massive fossil fuel consumption and the consequent climate changes, leading to a progressive collapse of biodiversity. The establishment of conservation initiatives is now more crucial than ever and the genetic …
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Pathogen surveillance and management strategies for confiscated and free-ranging eastern box turtles (Terrapene carolina carolina)
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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