Global wildlife trade across the tree of life

BR Scheffers, BF Oliveira, I Lamb, DP Edwards - Science, 2019 - science.org
Wildlife trade is a multibillion dollar industry that is driving species toward extinction. Of>
31,500 terrestrial bird, mammal, amphibian, and squamate reptile species,~ 24%(N= 7638) …

Combined impacts of deforestation and wildlife trade on tropical biodiversity are severely underestimated

WS Symes, DP Edwards, J Miettinen… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Tropical forest diversity is simultaneously threatened by habitat loss and exploitation for
wildlife trade. Quantitative conservation assessments have previously considered these …

[HTML][HTML] Illegal pet trade on social media as an emerging impediment to the conservation of Asian otters species

P Siriwat, V Nijman - Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 2018 - Elsevier
Social media has become an increasingly popular platform to trade legal and illegal wildlife.
Here, we evaluate the online trade of otters, a group of globally threatened taxa in Thailand …

[HTML][HTML] Wildlife trade shifts from brick-and-mortar markets to virtual marketplaces: A case study of birds of prey trade in Thailand

P Siriwat, V Nijman - Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 2020 - Elsevier
The shift of wildlife trade from brick-and-mortar markets to virtual online marketplaces is
reported using the trade of birds of prey (raptors) in Thailand from 1968 to 2019 as a case …

The role of the anthropogenic Allee effect in the exotic pet trade on Facebook in Thailand

P Siriwat, KAI Nekaris, V Nijman - Journal for nature conservation, 2019 - Elsevier
The impact of the wildlife trade has been accentuated in the Internet age where social media
platforms have offered accessible and consumer-friendly avenues in the way species are …

United States wildlife and wildlife product imports from 2000–2014

EA Eskew, AM White, N Ross, KM Smith, KF Smith… - Scientific Data, 2020 - nature.com
The global wildlife trade network is a massive system that has been shown to threaten
biodiversity, introduce non-native species and pathogens, and cause chronic animal welfare …

Exotic animal cafes are increasingly home to threatened biodiversity

SE McMillan, C Dingle, JA Allcock… - Conservation …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Exploitation of species for wildlife trade, including the demand for exotic pets (likely sourced
from the wild or recent generations of captivity) is a major threat to biodiversity. Although not …

Applying conservation social science to study the human dimensions of Neotropical bird conservation

AA Dayer, EA Silva-Rodríguez, S Albert… - The Condor, 2020 - academic.oup.com
As the global human population increases, and many bird populations in the Neotropics and
the rest of the world continue to decline, the study of the intersection of humans, birds, and …

Assessing the global prevalence of wild birds in trade

PF Donald, E Fernando, L Brown… - Conservation …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Trade represents a significant threat to many wild species and is often clandestine and
poorly monitored. Information on which species are most prevalent in trade and potentially …

Novel chytrid pathogen variants and the global amphibian pet trade

M Fu, B Waldman - Conservation Biology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Global wildlife trade spreads emerging infectious diseases that threaten biodiversity. The
amphibian chytrid pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) has caused population …