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Unravelling the drastic range retraction of an emblematic songbird of North Africa: potential threats to Afro-Palearctic migratory birds

Understanding how culture may influence biodiversity is fundamental to ensure effective conservation, especially when the practice is local but the implications are global. Despite that, little effort has been devoted to documenting cases of culturally-related biodiversity loss. Here, we investigate...

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Autores principales: Khelifa, Rassim, Zebsa, Rabah, Amari, Hichem, Mellal, Mohammed Khalil, Bensouilah, Soufyane, Laouar, Abdeldjalil, Mahdjoub, Hayat
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5430695/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28439077
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01103-w
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author Khelifa, Rassim
Zebsa, Rabah
Amari, Hichem
Mellal, Mohammed Khalil
Bensouilah, Soufyane
Laouar, Abdeldjalil
Mahdjoub, Hayat
author_facet Khelifa, Rassim
Zebsa, Rabah
Amari, Hichem
Mellal, Mohammed Khalil
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Laouar, Abdeldjalil
Mahdjoub, Hayat
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description Understanding how culture may influence biodiversity is fundamental to ensure effective conservation, especially when the practice is local but the implications are global. Despite that, little effort has been devoted to documenting cases of culturally-related biodiversity loss. Here, we investigate the cultural domestication of the European goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis) in western Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia) and the effects of long-term poaching of wild populations (1990–2016) on range distribution, socio-economic value, international trading and potential collateral damage on Afro-Palearctic migratory birds. On average, we found that the European goldfinch lost 56.7% of its distribution range in the region which led to the increase of its economic value and establishment of international trading network in western Maghreb. One goldfinch is currently worth nearly a third of the average monthly income in the region. There has been a major change in poaching method around 2010, where poachers started to use mist nets to capture the species. Nearly a third of the 16 bird species captured as by-catch of the European goldfinch poaching are migratory, of which one became regularly sold as cage-bird. These results suggest that Afro-Palearctic migratory birds could be under serious by-catch threat.
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spelling pubmed-54306952017-05-16 Unravelling the drastic range retraction of an emblematic songbird of North Africa: potential threats to Afro-Palearctic migratory birds Khelifa, Rassim Zebsa, Rabah Amari, Hichem Mellal, Mohammed Khalil Bensouilah, Soufyane Laouar, Abdeldjalil Mahdjoub, Hayat Sci Rep Article Understanding how culture may influence biodiversity is fundamental to ensure effective conservation, especially when the practice is local but the implications are global. Despite that, little effort has been devoted to documenting cases of culturally-related biodiversity loss. Here, we investigate the cultural domestication of the European goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis) in western Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia) and the effects of long-term poaching of wild populations (1990–2016) on range distribution, socio-economic value, international trading and potential collateral damage on Afro-Palearctic migratory birds. On average, we found that the European goldfinch lost 56.7% of its distribution range in the region which led to the increase of its economic value and establishment of international trading network in western Maghreb. One goldfinch is currently worth nearly a third of the average monthly income in the region. There has been a major change in poaching method around 2010, where poachers started to use mist nets to capture the species. Nearly a third of the 16 bird species captured as by-catch of the European goldfinch poaching are migratory, of which one became regularly sold as cage-bird. These results suggest that Afro-Palearctic migratory birds could be under serious by-catch threat. Nature Publishing Group UK 2017-04-24 /pmc/articles/PMC5430695/ /pubmed/28439077 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01103-w Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Mahdjoub, Hayat
Unravelling the drastic range retraction of an emblematic songbird of North Africa: potential threats to Afro-Palearctic migratory birds
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title_short Unravelling the drastic range retraction of an emblematic songbird of North Africa: potential threats to Afro-Palearctic migratory birds
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5430695/
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