The word “psychedelic”(psyche (ie, the mind or soul) and delos (ie, to show)) has Greek
origin and was first coined by psychiatrist Humphry Osmond in 1956, who had been …

Seizures of hundreds of jaguar heads and canines in Central and South America from 2014
to 2018 resulted in worldwide media coverage suggesting that wildlife traffickers are trading …

Abstract The United Nation's Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 calls for reducing
species extinctions, as it is increasingly clear that human activities threaten to drive species …

Recent seizures of jaguar body parts in Bolivia have prompted concern about illegal trade to
China, but a detailed understanding of this emerging trade continues to be lacking. We …

Wildlife exploitation has nutritional, medicinal, luxury, sociocultural, and financial
significance for human societies. Yet, it also risks undesired outcomes for conservation …

This article examines the phenomenon of shamanic tourism, which began in Amazonia in
the 1980s. The author has researched the phenomenon since the early 2000s—while it was …

Simple Summary Human conflicts with wildlife (HWC) are gradually increasing in urban
areas with changing patterns of land-use and fragmentation. We investigated the occurrence …

As the largest felid in the Americas, the jaguar Panthera onca has both ecological and
cultural significance in Bolivia. Yet jaguar populations are declining because of multiple …

Introduction Domestic wildlife markets have important nutritional, medicinal, cultural, and
financial significance for local communities, but the scale and diversity of wildlife trade that …

Primate species in the Neotropics are undergoing increasing anthropogenic threats,
including unsustainable trade and consumption by rapidly urbanizing communities. Yet the …