Commercially-driven lion part removal: What is the evidence from mortality records?

Trade-driven killing for body parts has long been a major cause of population decline for a number of big cat species. There are now worrying suggestions that commercialised illegal trade in body parts might become a threat for wild lions in Africa, and recent concerns have been raised that trade in...

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Main Authors: Peter Coals, Amy Dickman, Jane Hunt, Ana Grau, Roseline Mandisodza-Chikerema, Dennis Ikanda, David W. Macdonald, Andrew Loveridge
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-12-01
Series:Global Ecology and Conservation
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IWT
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989420308684