New paper on the overlooked trade in live wild birds taken from Africa in Conservation Biology. We explored how customs and other data sources can be used to fill blind-spots in understanding of #wildlifetrade with some striking & surprising findings. More here
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Legal vs illegal wildlife trade isn’t a clean split. A recent article shows that “legal” online trade often violates key laws, and enforcement biases can enable this.
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#WildlifeTrade #AcademicPublishing

Book cover: "The Economics of the Wildlife Trade" by Frederick Chen and Michael 't Sas-Rolfes. A rhino is in the bottom half of the cover, nestled in brush. "Routledge Studies in Conservation" is in the upper left corner.

🔎 How do market forces shape wildlife trading - and government policy?

Requiring only a basic understanding of economic principles, this is a crucial guide to the economics of the wildlife trade.

🔗 Find here: spr.ly/6002B6ofo8

#WildlifeTrade #AcademicPublishing

Stable #isotopes (C, N, H, O) can distinguish wild vs. captive #songbirds in #Brazil and reveal wildlife laundering - #OpenAccess zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #wildlifetrafficking #wildlifetrade @wileyecology.bsky.social Resumo também em #português

I just finished writing my book... It's going to take a while for that to sink in. #AcademicSky #MultiSpeciesEthnography #MoreThanHuman #WildlifeTrade #Writing #Book

U.S.' hunger for Halloween trinkets is killing Vietnam's painted woolly bats With hues of orange and black on its wings and a furry, fluffy face, the painted woolly bat is a stunner. But its beauty has become a deadly liability. People want to hang the bats — dead and stuffed ...

Vendors told researchers that most of the painted woolly bats they sold were pulled from the wild. Evidence suggests these mammals have almost disappeared from the country’s Mekong Delta region, partly because of this intensive trade.
#Vietnam #bats #wildlifetrade
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Kenya arrests Chinese national over attempt to smuggle 2,000 queen ants The suspect had packed some ants in test tubes while others were concealed in tissue paper rolls, prosecutor says.

🐜🚨 Another case of large-scale wildlife poaching for the international #ExoticPetTrade: Chinese national arrested over attempt to smuggle 2,000 queen ants from #Kenya.

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#StolenWildlife #WildlifeCrime #WildlifeTrade #conservation
@awionline.org

Very good report @euronews.com on #IWT in #EuropeanEel - demonstrating how trade continues despite the #CITES listing & Europe-wide bans on export outside the EU #GreenCollarCrime #trafficking #WildlifeTrade www.euronews.com/2026/03/03/g...

Javan Rhinos Not Safe from Poachers Testimony of Illegal poachers in Indonesia finds 26 of the estimated remaining 72 living Javan #Rhinos were slaughtered over the past five years. Shame!

Shocking #news: 26 of the 72 remaining #Javan #Rhinos 🦏 were poached recently from Ujung Kulon National Park #Indonesia making their protection even more serious. End disgusting #poaching! Help them survive when you #Boycott4Wildlife End #Wildlifetrade! @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-91C

Javan Rhinos Not Safe from Poachers Testimony of Illegal poachers in Indonesia finds 26 of the estimated remaining 72 living Javan #Rhinos were slaughtered over the past five years. Shame!

Shocking #news: 26 of the 72 remaining #Javan #Rhinos 🦏 were poached recently from Ujung Kulon National Park, #Indonesia making their protection even more serious. End disgusting #poaching! Help them survive when you #Boycott4Wildlife End #Wildlifetrade! @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-91C

This reminds me the non-fiction book The Lizard King, where NatGeo head of investigation Brian Christy tells the story of US wildlife smugglers and law enforcement investigations over the past 50 years #wildlifetrade

Javan Rhinos Not Safe from Poachers Testimony of Illegal poachers in Indonesia finds 26 of the estimated remaining 72 living Javan #Rhinos were slaughtered over the past five years. Shame!

Shocking #news: 26 of the 72 remaining #Javan #Rhinos 🦏 were poached recently from Ujung Kulon National Park, #Indonesia making their protection even more serious. End disgusting #poaching! Help them survive when you #Boycott4Wildlife End #Wildlifetrade! @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-91C

This afternoon, SUIBE students visited the International #EnvironmentHouse for an intro on #GENeva as a global hub for env't governance!

Lively discussions took place with Stavros Antoniadis of CITES on #WildlifeTrade and with Hannes MacNulty of GGKP on #GreenEconomy.

Check out this brilliant piece in the new Handbook on #WildlifeCrime by my lovely colleagues @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social @georgeiorda.bsky.social & Teresa Lappe-Osthege. It highlights the overlooked trade in European wildlife #IWT #WildlifeTrade

Javan Rhinos Not Safe from Poachers Testimony of Illegal poachers in Indonesia finds 26 of the estimated remaining 72 living Javan #Rhinos were slaughtered over the past five years. Shame!

Shocking #news: 26 of the 72 remaining #Javan #Rhinos 🦏 were poached recently from Ujung Kulon National Park #Indonesia making their protection even more serious. End disgusting #poaching! Help them survive when you #Boycott4Wildlife End #Wildlifetrade! @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-91C

"Experts assessed how a reverse listing (RL) under CITES could affect the exotic pet trade. Uncertainty remains, especially on legal trade & livelihoods. Clearer RL goals & criteria are vital for better decisions" #WildlifeTrade #CITES

📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/6NhvhAN

#EnvironmentalEducation #WildlifeTrade #Songbird #Conservation #bird #Biodiversity #ConservationScience #EducationForSustainability #burung #konservasi #biodiversitas #indonesia

Nearly 30,000 trafficked animals were rescued in a monthlong global operation Interpol says a monthlong operation led by the international police body resulted in the rescue of nearly 30,000 live animals that were being trafficked

CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Nearly 30,000 live animals were rescued in a monthlong global operation against wildlife trafficking that resulted in a record number of seizures, the international police body Interpol said on Thursday. #OperationThunder #WildlifeTrade

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Ban the commercial trade of big cats in South Africa South Africa farms big cats for international trade and is the biggest exporter of live big cats and their parts globally. Ineffective and fragmented national regulation have created a big cat industr...

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#EndTrophyhunting #CannedHunting #Hunting #WildlifeTrade

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The results are in…updates from the 20th Conference of Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan from 24th November to 5th December 2025.

🐘🦏🦒🦈🐆🦁

Learn more and take action👇 bit.ly/CoP20updates

#cites #wildlifetrade #conservation

Investigating the illegal online trade of Indonesian parrots (Psittacine) - European Journal of Wildlife Research Targeted for characteristics such as their colourful appearance, intelligence, and ability to recognize the human voice, parrots (order Psittaciformes) have become a coveted commodity. They are theref...

So glad to see this open access article on Indonesian parrot trade finally in print! Great last publication to (almost) round off the year #GCRF #parrots #wildlifetrade #IWT #COVID #openaccess @thesccjr.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsociology.bsky.social -
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Geier, Vulture

A milestone at #CITESCoP20: 120+ #threatened species gained stronger #protection, incl. all Galapagos iguanas and 74 shark & ray species. Attempts to weaken protection for giraffes or reopen ivory & rhino-horn trade failed.

🔗Full PW release: www.prowildlife.de/aktuelles/pr...

#CITES #WildlifeTrade

I - ICYMI there’s a new paper on #eels & #harms from Ali Hutchinson in the Beastly Business team. #WildlifeTrade Check it out ⬇️

Protect marine life 🦈 #WildlifeTrade #RacingExtinction

Peregrine falcon flying with half opened wings. Ein Wanderfalke im Flug mit halb geöffneten Flügeln.

In spite of the recovery of some populations in North America and Europe, researchers list plenty of good reasons, why the Peregrine Falcon, Falco peregrinus, should not be downlisted from CITES Appendix I two Appendix II. #conservation #Wanderfalke #falcon #wildlifetrade #CITES ogy.de/1109

Fate of elephants, rhinos & others to be decided at the upcoming CITES Conference of the Parties in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. ADI is calling for a stronger CITES: supporting proposals to increase protections & opposing those that would weaken them.
Follow ADI for updates #wildlifetrade

Jes stands at the plinth speaking to the audience

A dirty cage is shown on the PowerPoint slide along with a summary of the key findings of Jes' 2023-3024 research

The PowerPoint screen displays a civet in a tree caught on camera with the words 'Civet One Health: Protecting Civets, People and the Planet'

Jes stands next to the PowerPoint presentation whilst it shows a film of wild Owstons civet

Today I spoke at @zslofficial.bsky.social about the commercial trade of civets in Vietnam, it's One Health implications and the power of bridging Insitu and Exsitu conservation. #civets #wildlifetrade #MultiSpeciesFutures @biaza.bsky.social

Most human animals kill animals, including natives. #WildlifeTrade

New Publication: Alison Hutchinson shares her new book chapter on European eels - Beastly Business Glass eels in a tray. Photo credit: Alison Hutchinson New Publication: Alison Hutchinson shares her new book chapter on European eels ‘Photovoice for Ecojustice: Following the European eel from the Sa...

📣 New paper by Alison Hutchinson on #harms #WildlifeTrade & #EuropeanEel. She uses photovoice narratives to explore understandings of harm & responses to it #PoliticalEcology #GreenCriminology beastlybusiness.org/2025/11/21/n...

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Contradiction #5:
SEG says the UK fishery is for “conservation fishing”
But European eel farms — certified by the same organisation — rely on wild-caught glass eels for consumption.
So the recovery is built on removing juveniles from the wild?

#WildlifeTrade
@OceanaEurope