Ingram, DJ;
Coad, L;
Abernethy, KA;
Maisels, F;
Stokes, EJ;
Bobo, KS;
Breuer, T;
... Scharlemann, JPW; + view all
(2018)
Assessing Africa-Wide Pangolin Exploitation by Scaling Local Data.
Conservation Letters
, 11
(2)
, Article e12389. 10.1111/conl.12389.
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Abstract
Overexploitation is one of the main pressures driving wildlife closer to extinction, yet broad-scale data to evaluate species’ declines are limited. Using African pangolins (Family: Pholidota) as a case study, we demonstrate that collating local-scale data can provide crucial information on regional trends in exploitation of threatened species to inform conservation actions and policy. We estimate that 0.4-2.7 million pangolins are hunted annually in Central African forests. The number of pangolins hunted has increased by ∼150% and the proportion of pangolins of all vertebrates hunted increased from 0.04% to 1.83% over the past four decades. However, there were no trends in pangolins observed at markets, suggesting use of alternative supply chains. The price of giant (Smutsia gigantea) and arboreal (Phataginus sp.) pangolins in urban markets has increased 5.8 and 2.3 times respectively, mirroring trends in Asian pangolins. Efforts and resources are needed to increase law enforcement and population monitoring, and investigate linkages between subsistence hunting and illegal wildlife trade.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Assessing Africa-Wide Pangolin Exploitation by Scaling Local Data |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/conl.12389 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/conl.12389 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright and Photocopying: © 2017 The Authors. Conservation Letters published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Africa; hunting; market; OFFTAKE; pangolins; trade; wild meat |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10042785 |
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