The U.S. market for imported wildlife not listed in the CITES multilateral treaty.

ABSTRACT: The international wildlife trade presents severe conservation and environmental security risks, yet no international regulatory framework exists to monitor the trade of species not listed in the appendices of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). We explored the composition and dynamics of internationally regulated versus nonregulated trade, with a focus on importations of wild-caught terrestrial vertebrates entering the United States from 2009 to 2018. We used 10 years of species-level trade records of the numbers of live, wild-caught animals imported to the United States and data on International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) estimates of extinction risk to determine whether there were differences in the diversity, abun

SUBMITTER: Watters F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10092231 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature