Illegal pet trade on social media as an emerging impediment to the conservation of Asian otters species
Social media has become an increasingly popular platform to trade legal and illegal wildlife. Here, we evaluate the online trade of otters, a group of globally threatened taxa in Thailand, a country of high global social media use. During the 14-month period, we monitored five Facebook groups to est...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2018-12-01
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Series: | Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity |
Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2287884X18302681 |