Determining the sustainability of legal wildlife trade

Mixed protection of threatened species traded under CITES

(2022) Oscar Morton et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

International trade and the survival of mammalian and reptilian species

(2022) Hugo M. Mialon et al.   Science Advances

Legal hunting for conservation of highly threatened species: The case of African rhinos

(2022) Michael ’t Sas‐Rolfes et al.   Conservation Letters

Searching the web builds fuller picture of arachnid trade

(2022) Benjamin M. Marshall et al.   Communications Biology

Demand for wildlife not listed in the CITES multilateral treaty

(2022) Freyja Watters et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Assessing Ecological and Social Dimensions of Success in a Community-based Sustainable Harvest Program

(2021) Christian J. Rivera et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Shortfin mako sharks speeding to the brink

(2021) David W. Sims et al.   SCIENCE

Regulating pets using an objective positive list approach

(2021) Clifford Warwick et al.   Journal of Veterinary Behavior-Clinical Applications and Research

Illegal and Legal Wildlife Trade Spreads Zoonotic Diseases

(2021) Vincent Nijman   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Impacts of wildlife trade on terrestrial biodiversity

(2021) Oscar Morton et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

The Vanishing Act: A History and Natural History of the Javan Pied Starling Gracupica jalla

(2021) S. (Bas) van Balen et al.   ARDEA

What drives the illegal parrot trade? Applying a criminological model to market and seizure data in Indonesia

(2021) Stephen F. Pires et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Trading Animal Lives: Ten Tricky Issues on the Road to Protecting Commodified Wild Animals

(2021) David W Macdonald et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Global status of groundfish stocks

(2021) Ray Hilborn et al.   FISH AND FISHERIES

An Integrated Population Model for Harvest Management of Atlantic Brant

(2021) Anthony J. Roberts et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Evaluation of Effects of Harvest on Alligator Populations in Louisiana

(2021) Ted Joanen et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Monitoring compliance of CITES lion bone exports from South Africa

(2021) Vivienne L. Williams et al.   PLoS One

International socioeconomic inequality drives trade patterns in the global wildlife market

(2021) Jia Huan Liew et al.   Science Advances

CITES and beyond: Illuminating 20 years of global, legal wildlife trade

(2021) Astrid Alexandra Andersson et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

The State of Migratory Landbirds in the East Asian Flyway: Distributions, Threats, and Conservation Needs

(2021) Ding Li Yong et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Think Before You Act: Improving the Conservation Outcomes of CITES Listing Decisions

(2021) Rosie Cooney et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Stable isotope analysis as a tool to detect illegal trade in critically endangered cockatoos

(2021) A. A. Andersson et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Wild Meat Is Still on the Menu: Progress in Wild Meat Research, Policy, and Practice from 2002 to 2020

(2021) Daniel J. Ingram et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

The dangers of misrepresenting wildlife trade: Response to Natusch et al. (2021)

(2021) David P. Edwards et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Overfishing drives over one-third of all sharks and rays toward a global extinction crisis

(2021) Nicholas K. Dulvy et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

IUCN-CITES match is not required: A reply to Gorobets

(2021) Michal Berec et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Gaps in global wildlife trade monitoring leave amphibians vulnerable

(2021) Alice C Hughes et al.   eLife

Zoos consenting to the illegal wildlife trade – the earless monitor lizard as a case study

(2021) Vincent Nijman   Nature Conservation-Bulgaria

Wild bongo density estimation and population viability analysis improves conservation management

(2021) Merel Koopmans et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

The European Union Is Still Unable to Find Nemo and Dory-Time for a Reliable Traceability System for the Marine Aquarium Trade

(2021) Monica V. Biondo et al.   Animals

Large-Scale Trade in a Songbird That Is Extinct in the Wild

(2021) Vincent Nijman et al.   Diversity-Basel

A standardized dataset for conservation prioritization of songbirds to support CITES

(2021) Jacqueline Juergens et al.   Data in Brief

The welfare of wildlife: an interdisciplinary analysis of harm in the legal and illegal wildlife trades and possible ways forward

(2021) Tanya Wyatt et al.   CRIME LAW AND SOCIAL CHANGE

Dismantling the poachernomics of the illegal wildlife trade

(2021) Enrico Di Minin et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Challenges and perspectives on tackling illegal or unsustainable wildlife trade

(2021) Caroline S. Fukushima et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Scientists' warning to humanity on illegal or unsustainable wildlife trade

(2021) Pedro Cardoso et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Prevalence of sustainable and unsustainable use of wild species inferred from the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

(2021) Sophie M. E. Marsh et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Wildlife trade

(2021) Alice C. Hughes   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Ivory poaching and the rapid evolution of tusklessness in African elephants

(2021) Shane C. Campbell-Staton et al.   SCIENCE

A framework for assessing and intervening in markets driving unsustainable wildlife use

(2021) Rodrigo Oyanedel et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Drawing the line between sustainable and unsustainable fish: product differentiation that supports sustainable development through trade measures

(2021) Urs Baumgartner et al.   Environmental Sciences Europe

Shark and ray trade in and out of Indonesia: Addressing knowledge gaps on the path to sustainability

(2021) Andhika P. Prasetyo et al.   MARINE POLICY

It's in the news: Characterising Indonesia's wild bird trade network from media-reported seizure incidents

(2020) Karlina Indraswari et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Reduce or redirect? Which social marketing interventions could influence demand for traditional medicines?

(2020) Tom P. Moorhouse et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

United States wildlife and wildlife product imports from 2000–2014

(2020) Evan A. Eskew et al.   Scientific Data

Prevalence of critically endangered European eel (Anguilla anguilla) in Hong Kong supermarkets

(2020) John L. Richards et al.   Science Advances

Assessing conservation efforts against threats to wild orchids in China

(2020) Hong Liu et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Non-Detriment Findings for international trade in wild orchids from developing countries; a case study for Broughtonia sanguinea in Jamaica

(2020) Jane E. Cohen et al.   JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION

Unsustainable harvest of water frogs in southern Turkey for the European market

(2020) Kerim Çiçek et al.   ORYX

Evaluating the relationships between the legal and illegal international wildlife trades

(2020) Derek P. Tittensor et al.   Conservation Letters

Global wildlife trade permeates the Tree of Life

(2020) Caroline Sayuri Fukushima et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Wildlife collection for scientific purposes

(2020) Caroline Fukushima et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Trends in illegal wildlife trade: Analyzing personal baggage seizure data in the Pacific Northwest

(2020) Rosemary T. Hitchens et al.   PLoS One

Snakes and ladders: A review of ball python production in West Africa for the global pet market

(2020) Lauren A. Harrington et al.   Nature Conservation-Bulgaria

Understanding non-compliance in small-scale fisheries: Shark fishing in Myanmar’s Myeik Archipelago

(2020) Tracy MacKeracher et al.   AMBIO

The risk of rediscovery: fast population decline of the localized endemic Chilean stag beetle Sclerostomulus nitidus (Coleoptera: Lucanidae) suggests trade as a threat

(2020) Silvio J. Crespin et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Ecosystem-based fisheries management and the precautionary approach in the Indian Ocean regional fisheries management organisations

(2020) Md Saiful Karim et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

COVID-19 Highlights the Need for More Effective Wildlife Trade Legislation

(2020) Amaël Borzée et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Over 90 endangered fish and invertebrates are caught in industrial fisheries

(2020) Leslie A. Roberson et al.   Nature Communications

Thousands of reptile species threatened by under-regulated global trade

(2020) Benjamin M. Marshall et al.   Nature Communications

Climate change will render size‐selective harvest of cold‐water fish species unsustainable in Mediterranean freshwaters

(2020) Daniel Ayllón et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Trading Tactics: Time to Rethink the Global Trade in Wildlife

(2020) Neil D’Cruze et al.   Animals

An examination of the import of live reptiles from Indonesia by the United States from 2000 to 2015

(2020) Jordi Janssen et al.   JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION

The European trade ban on wild birds reduced invasion risks

(2019) Laura Cardador et al.   Conservation Letters

Long delays in banning trade in threatened species

(2019) Eyal G. Frank et al.   SCIENCE

Where are they all from? - sources and sustainability in the ornamental freshwater fish trade

(2019) Hans-Georg Evers et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic and Trait-Based Prediction of Extinction Risk for Data-Deficient Amphibians

(2019) Pamela González-del-Pliego et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Inadequacies in establishing CITES trade bans

(2019) Daniel WS Challender et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Identifying global centers of unsustainable commercial harvesting of species

(2019) Enrico Di Minin et al.   Science Advances

Trends in legal and illegal trade of wild birds: a global assessment based on expert knowledge

(2019) Joana Ribeiro et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Traded under the radar: poor documentation of trade in nationally-protected non-CITES species can cause fraudulent trade to go undetected

(2019) Jordi Janssen et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Progress, challenges and opportunities for Red Listing

(2019) Steven P. Bachman et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Spatio-temporal dynamics of consumer demand driving the Asian Songbird Crisis

(2019) Harry Marshall et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Assessing the impact of felling/export ban and CITES designation on exploitation of African rosewood (Pterocarpus erinaceus)

(2019) William Kwadwo Dumenu   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Trophy hunting bans imperil biodiversity

(2019) Amy Dickman et al.   SCIENCE

DNA-based species identification of shark finning seizures in Southwest Atlantic: implications for wildlife trade surveillance and law enforcement

(2019) Bruno Lopes da Silva Ferrette et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Two sides of the same coin – Wildmeat consumption and illegal wildlife trade at the crossroads of Asia

(2019) J.F. McEvoy et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Global wildlife trade across the tree of life

(2019) Brett R. Scheffers et al.   SCIENCE

Realities of offering advice to governments on CITES

(2019) Lindsay Aylesworth et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Harvest models of small populations of a large carnivore using Bayesian forecasting

(2019) Henrik Andrén et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Species delimitation and systematics of the green pythons (Morelia viridis complex) of melanesia and Australia

(2019) Daniel J.D. Natusch et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Characterizing and quantifying the wildlife trade network in Sulawesi, Indonesia

(2019) Alice Latinne et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Will human influences on evolutionary dynamics in the wild pervade the Anthropocene?

(2018) Fanie Pelletier et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Challenges of analyzing the global trade in CITES-listed wildlife

(2018) Janine E. Robinson et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Demographic changes in Chinook salmon across the Northeast Pacific Ocean

(2018) Jan Ohlberger et al.   FISH AND FISHERIES

The misunderstood sixth mass extinction

(2018) Gerardo Ceballos et al.   SCIENCE

Sustainable management of migratory European ducks: finding model species

(2018) Sari Holopainen et al.   WILDLIFE BIOLOGY

Community involvement works where enforcement fails: conservation success through community-based management of Amazon river turtle nests

(2018) Darren Norris et al.   PeerJ

DNA barcoding as a tool for robust identification of cervids of India and its utility in wildlife forensics

(2018) Ved P. Kumar et al.   Mitochondrial DNA Part B-Resources

Exploring the international trade in African snakes not listed on CITES: highlighting the role of the internet and social media

(2018) Timm Juul Jensen et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Commoning in dynamic environments: community-based management of turtle nesting sites on the lower Amazon floodplain

(2018) Juarez Pezzuti et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

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

(2018) William S. Symes et al.   Nature Communications

A Theoretical Population and Harvest Model for American Alligators (Alligator mississippiensis)

(2018) Cord B. Eversole et al.   HERPETOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Sustainable seafood certifications are inadequate to challenges of ecosystem change

(2018) Melina Kourantidou et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

Wallace’s Giant Bee for sale: implications for trade regulation and conservation

(2018) Nicolas J. Vereecken   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Lessons from 30 years of population viability analysis of wildlife populations

(2018) Robert C. Lacy   ZOO BIOLOGY

Left hung out to dry: How inadequate international protection can fuel trade in endemic species – The case of the earless monitor

(2018) Jordi Janssen et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Island ecology and evolution: challenges in the Anthropocene

(2017) NATALIE R. GRAHAM et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Integrated population models facilitate ecological understanding and improved management decisions

(2017) Todd W. Arnold et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Phylogeography of the reticulated python (Malayopython reticulatus ssp.): Conservation implications for the worlds’ most traded snake species

(2017) Gillian Murray-Dickson et al.   PLoS One

Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines

(2017) Gerardo Ceballos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Do not publish

(2017) David Lindenmayer et al.   SCIENCE

A new species of Eumeces Wiegmann 1834 (Sauria: Scincidae) from Iran

(2017) HIVA FAIZI et al.   ZOOTAXA

Information Could Reduce Consumer Demand for Exotic Pets

(2017) Tom P. Moorhouse et al.   Conservation Letters

Testing of microsatellite multiplexes for individual identification of Cape Parrots (Poicephalus robustus): paternity testing and monitoring trade

(2017) Willem G. Coetzer et al.   PeerJ

Wildlife governance in the 21st century-Will sustainable use endure?

(2017) Daniel J. Decker et al.   WILDLIFE SOCIETY BULLETIN

Networks of global bird invasion altered by regional trade ban

(2017) Luís Reino et al.   Science Advances

A roaring trade? The legal trade in Panthera leo bones from Africa to East-Southeast Asia

(2017) Vivienne L. Williams et al.   PLoS One

Re-shifting the ecological baseline for the overexploited Mediterranean red coral

(2017) J. Garrabou et al.   Scientific Reports

The global amphibian trade flows through Europe: the need for enforcing and improving legislation

(2016) Mark Auliya et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Trade in live reptiles, its impact on wild populations, and the role of the European market

(2016) Mark Auliya et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Estimating the global trade in Southeast Asian newts

(2016) Jodi J.L. Rowley et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Really sustainable? Inherent risks of eco-labeling in fisheries

(2016) Maria Hadjimichael et al.   FISHERIES RESEARCH

Disappearing in the Night: An Overview on Trade and Legislation of Night Monkeys in South and Central America

(2016) Magdalena S. Svensson et al.   FOLIA PRIMATOLOGICA

Shades of grey: the legal trade in CITES-listed birds in Singapore, notably the globally threatened African grey parrot Psittacus erithacus

(2016) Colin M. Poole et al.   ORYX

Ecological consequences of human niche construction: Examining long-term anthropogenic shaping of global species distributions

(2016) Nicole L. Boivin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

From Poachers to Protectors: Engaging Local Communities in Solutions to Illegal Wildlife Trade

(2016) Rosie Cooney et al.   Conservation Letters

Continent-wide survey reveals massive decline in African savannah elephants

(2016) Michael J. Chase et al.   PeerJ

The spread of pathogens through trade in wildlife

(2016) D.A. TRAVIS et al.   REVUE SCIENTIFIQUE ET TECHNIQUE-OFFICE INTERNATIONAL DES EPIZOOTIES

Understanding markets to conserve trade-threatened species in CITES

(2015) Daniel W.S. Challender et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Using market data and expert opinion to identify overexploited species in the wild bird trade

(2015) J. Berton C. Harris et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Indicators for wild animal offtake: methods and case study for African mammals and birds

(2015) Daniel J. Ingram et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

A Variegated Squirrel Bornavirus Associated with Fatal Human Encephalitis

(2015) Bernd Hoffmann et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Towards a general framework for predicting threat status of data-deficient species from phylogenetic, spatial and environmental information

(2015) W. Jetz et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Two new species of the genus Goniurosaurus (Squamata: Sauria: Eublepharidae) from southern China

(2015) JIAN-HUAN YANG et al.   ZOOTAXA

A Legal-Ecological Understanding of Favorable Conservation Status for Species in Europe

(2015) Yaffa Epstein et al.   Conservation Letters

Towards informed and multi-faceted wildlife trade interventions

(2015) Daniel W.S. Challender et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

A Novel Mini-DNA Barcoding Assay to Identify Processed Fins from Internationally Protected Shark Species

(2015) Andrew T. Fields et al.   PLoS One

Present-day risk assessment would have predicted the extinction of the passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius)

(2014) Jessica C. Stanton   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Toward better application of minimum area requirements in conservation planning

(2014) Guy Pe’er et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Use it or lose it: measuring trends in wild species subject to substantial use

(2014) Megan Tierney et al.   ORYX

Defaunation in the Anthropocene

(2014) R. Dirzo et al.   SCIENCE

The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection

(2014) S. L. Pimm et al.   SCIENCE

Challenges for Multilevel Stakeholder Engagement in Public Trust Resource Governance

(2014) Emily F. Pomeranz et al.   HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF WILDLIFE

Conservation and management of ornamental coral reef wildlife: Successes, shortcomings, and future directions

(2013) Laura E. Dee et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Rough Trade

(2013)   BIOSCIENCE

Demographic Evidence of Illegal Harvesting of an Endangered Asian Turtle

(2013) YIK-HEI SUNG et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Update or Outdate: Long-Term Viability of the IUCN Red List

(2013) Carlo Rondinini et al.   Conservation Letters

Collection and trade of wild-harvested orchids in Nepal

(2013) Abishkar Subedi et al.   Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

The rarity and overexploitation paradox: stag beetle collections in Japan

(2012) Pierline Tournant et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Searching for sustainability: are assessments of wildlife harvests behind the times?

(2012) Karen Z. Weinbaum et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

International trade drives biodiversity threats in developing nations

(2012) M. Lenzen et al.   NATURE

Wildlife laundering through breeding farms: Illegal harvest, population declines and a means of regulating the trade of green pythons (Morelia viridis) from Indonesia

(2011) Jessica A. Lyons et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Biology, taxonomy and conservation status of the Short-tailed Green Magpie Cissa [t.] thalassina from Java

(2011) S. (BAS) VAN BALEN et al.   BIRD CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL

Reduced horn size in two wild trophy-hunted species of Caprinae

(2011) Jesús M. Pérez et al.   WILDLIFE BIOLOGY

Intense harvesting of eastern wolves facilitated hybridization with coyotes

(2011) Linda Y. Rutledge et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The role of Asia in the global trade in CITES II-listed poison arrow frogs: hopping from Kazakhstan to Lebanon to Thailand and beyond

(2010) Vincent Nijman et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

The conservation impact of commercial wildlife farming of porcupines in Vietnam

(2010) Emma G.E. Brooks et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Boosting CITES

(2010) J. Phelps et al.   SCIENCE

Trends in the harvest of Brünnich's guillemots Uria lomvia in Newfoundland: effects of regulatory changes and winter sea ice conditions

(2010) Anthony J. Gaston et al.   WILDLIFE BIOLOGY

An overview of international wildlife trade from Southeast Asia

(2009) Vincent Nijman   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Data Deficient birds on the IUCN Red List: What don’t we know and why does it matter?

(2009) Stuart H.M. Butchart et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Assessing CITES non-detriment findings procedures forArapaimain Brazil

(2009) L. Castello et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ICHTHYOLOGY

The chelonian trade in the largest pet market in China: scale, scope and impact on turtle conservation

(2009) Shi-Ping Gong et al.   ORYX

Fatal attraction: rare species in the spotlight

(2009) E. Angulo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Trade in night monkeys Aotus spp. in the Brazil–Colombia–Peru tri-border area: international wildlife trade regulations are ineffectively enforced

(2009) AM Maldonado et al.   Endangered Species Research

Wild-bird trade and exotic invasions: a new link of conservation concern?

(2008) Martina Carrete et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Endangering the endangered: The effects of perceived rarity on species exploitation

(2008) Richard J. Hall et al.   Conservation Letters