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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Penthai Siriwat, Vincent Nijman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-12-01
Series:Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2287884X18302681