Opportunistic or Non-Random Wildlife Crime? Attractiveness Rather Than Abundance in the Wild Leads to Selective Parrot Poaching

Opportunistic or Non-Random Wildlife Crime? Attractiveness Rather Than Abundance in the Wild Leads to Selective Parrot Poaching

Illegal wildlife trade, which mostly focuses on high-demand species, constitutes a major threat to biodiversity. However, whether poaching is an opportunistic crime within high-demand taxa such as parrots (i.e., harvesting proportional to species availability in the wild), or is selectively focused...

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Main Authors: Pedro Romero-Vidal, Fernando Hiraldo, Federica Rosseto, Guillermo Blanco, Martina Carrete, José L. Tella
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-08-01
Series:Diversity
Subjects:
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conservation criminology
defaunation
harvesting
wildlife trade
parrot abundance
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/12/8/314

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