Nature Conservation (Sep 2017)

A critical comment to D´Cruze and Macdonald (2016)

  • Ricardo Jorge Lopes,
  • Juliana Machado Ferreira,
  • Nadia Moraes-Barros

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3897/natureconservation.21.13071
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 21
pp. 159 – 161

Abstract

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We argue that the CITES Trade Database, the only public database on wildlife trade, does not reflect the overall number of seizures concerning traffic of live specimens of CITES listed species, and therefore any analysis that does not take this bias into acount may lead the reader to erroneous conclusions.