Worldwide industry dealing in the acquisition and sale of wildlife
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Wildlife trade refers to the products that are derived from non-domesticated animals or plants usually extracted from their natural environment or raised under controlled conditions. It can involve the trade of living or dead individuals, tissues such as skins, bones or meat, or other products. Legal wildlife trade is regulated by the United Nations' Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), which currently has 184 member countries called Parties.[1] Illegal wildlife trade is widespread and constitutes one of the major illegal economic activities, comparable to the traffic of drugs and weapons.[2]
Wildlife trade is a serious conservation problem, has a negative effect on the viability of many wildlife populations and is one of the major threats to the survival of vertebrate species.[3] The illegal wildlife trade has been linked to the emergence and spread of new infectious diseases in humans, including emergent viruses.[4][5] Global initiative like the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 15 have a target to end the illegal supply of wildlife.[6]
^CITES 2013. Member countries. CITES Secretariat, Geneva.
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^Smith, KF; Schloegel, LM; Rosen, GE (2012). "Wildlife Trade and the Spread of Disease". In A. Alonso Aguirre; Richard Ostfeld; Peter Daszak (eds.). New Directions in Conservation Medicine: Applied Cases of Ecological Health. Oxford University Press. pp. 151–163. ISBN 978-0-19-990905-6.
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efforts to preserve Earth's wildlife. Prominent conservation agreements include the 1973 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild...
international wildlifetrade amounts to billions of dollars and it affects hundreds of millions of animal and plant specimen. Wildlifetrade refers to the...
transmission through the wildlifetrade.Furthermore, there are many relationships that must be considered when discussing wildlife disease, which are represented...
accepted in terms of non-lethal use of wildlife, but a debate raged over lethal use as in the case of the ivory trade. Most[citation needed] encounters between...
for a global ban on wildlife markets to prevent future pandemics. Others have also called for a total ban on the global wildlifetrade or for already existing...
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the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.[3] By design, CITES regulates and monitors trade in the manner of a "negative list" such that trade in all species is...
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most trafficked mammal, accounting for as much as 20% of all illegal wildlifetrade. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)...
identified as a significant source in at least one spillover event. The wildlifetrade may increase spillover risk because it directly increases the number...
be declining. In Indonesia, it is threatened by poaching and illegal wildlifetrade; buyers use it for the increasing production of kopi luwak (civet coffee)...
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enforces wildlife laws, investigates wildlife crimes, regulates wildlifetrade, helps people in the United States understand and obey wildlife protection...
ISSN 1940-0829. S2CID 233919533. van Uhm, D.P. (2016). The Illegal WildlifeTrade: Inside the World of Poachers, Smugglers and Traders (Studies of Organized...
instruct nations on how to stop illegal wildlifetrading and poaching. The idea holds that once illegal wildlifetrade is reduced, poaching will eventually...
Asia and China, it is threatened by poaching for the illegal wildlifetrade. This trade has the greatest potential to do maximum harm in minimal time...
confiscated from the illegal wildlifetrade, victims of habitat loss, donated by a private owner, or rescued in a human-wildlife conflict situation. Most...
while the former was in post as Foreign Secretary, that the illegal wildlifetrade (IWT) was among the most profitable criminal enterprises in the world...
conservation and wildlife parks, and inefficiency and low morale within Kenya's game department. The international ban on the trade in ivory was implemented...
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immediate threat to the existence of wild tiger populations is the illegal wildlifetrade in poached skins and body parts between India, Nepal and China. The...
threatened by large–scale deforestation and commercial poaching for the wildlifetrade. Its body parts are offered for decoration and clothing, though it is...
participation in illegal trade, such as in the drug trade, illegal weapons trade, prostitution, human trafficking, kidnapping, exotic wildlifetrade, art theft, blood...
agencies for environment and wildlife protection experienced severe budget cuts which led to layoffs and salary reductions for wildlife rangers in places like...
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