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

By

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

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2017

Original Publication

Subterranean Biology

Volume

21

Pages

159--161

Subjects

CITES Trade database , illicit global wildlife trade

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/natureconservation.21.13071

 

Abstract

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.