Scale of the issue: Mapping the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on pangolin trade across India

Recent studies have linked COVID-19 induced restrictions to an increase in wildlife crime, with severe yet unknown implications for severely threatened taxa like pangolins. We analyze publicly available online seizure reports involving pangolins across India before (2018–2019) and during the pandemi...

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Autores principales: Aditya, Vikram, Goswami, Rajkamal, Mendis, Aristo, Roopa, Ramya
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8459300/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34580548
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109136
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description Recent studies have linked COVID-19 induced restrictions to an increase in wildlife crime, with severe yet unknown implications for severely threatened taxa like pangolins. We analyze publicly available online seizure reports involving pangolins across India before (2018–2019) and during the pandemic (March–August 2020), using a longitudinal study design to estimate how lockdowns have impacted pangolin trade. Our analysis indicates a significant increase in seizures reported during the lockdown months of March to August 2020, in comparison to the same period in 2018 and 2019. We discuss the drivers behind this spike in pangolin trade and offer potential conservation measures.
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spelling pubmed-84593002021-09-23 Scale of the issue: Mapping the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on pangolin trade across India Aditya, Vikram Goswami, Rajkamal Mendis, Aristo Roopa, Ramya Biol Conserv Article Recent studies have linked COVID-19 induced restrictions to an increase in wildlife crime, with severe yet unknown implications for severely threatened taxa like pangolins. We analyze publicly available online seizure reports involving pangolins across India before (2018–2019) and during the pandemic (March–August 2020), using a longitudinal study design to estimate how lockdowns have impacted pangolin trade. Our analysis indicates a significant increase in seizures reported during the lockdown months of March to August 2020, in comparison to the same period in 2018 and 2019. We discuss the drivers behind this spike in pangolin trade and offer potential conservation measures. Elsevier Ltd. 2021-05 2021-04-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8459300/ /pubmed/34580548 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109136 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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