Assessing Africa-Wide Pangolin Exploitation by Scaling Local Data

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/conl.12389" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/conl.12389</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/conl.12389" target="_blank" >10.1111/conl.12389</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Assessing Africa-Wide Pangolin Exploitation by Scaling Local Data

Original language description

Overexploitation is one of the main pressures driving wildlife closer to extinction, yet broad-scale data to evaluate species' declines are limited. Using African pangolins (Family: Pholidota) as a case study, we demonstrate that collating local-scale data can provide crucial information on regional trends in exploitation of threatened species to inform conservation actions and policy. We estimate that 0.4-2.7 million pangolins are hunted annually in Central African forests. The number of pangolins hunted has increased by approximate to 150% and the proportion of pangolins of all vertebrates hunted increased from 0.04% to 1.83% over the past four decades. However, there were no trends in pangolins observed at markets, suggesting use of alternative supply chains. The price of giant (Smutsia gigantea) and arboreal (Phataginus sp.) pangolins in urban markets has increased 5.8 and 2.3 times respectively, mirroring trends in Asian pangolins. Efforts and resources are needed to increase law enforcement and population monitoring, and investigate linkages between subsistence hunting and illegal wildlife trade.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Conservation Letters

ISSN

1755-263X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000430118100011

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85026376384