Anthropology, Education, Sociology, and Social Phenomena

Wildlife Trade

Commerce of non-domesticated WILD ANIMALS or plants. Wildlife trade, particularly illegal trades, threaten ECOSYSTEMS and drives up SPECIES EXTINCTION. It also increases chance of emerging ZOONOSES.

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Structured Summary

Abstract

Commerce of non-domesticated WILD ANIMALS or plants. Wildlife trade, particularly illegal trades, threaten ECOSYSTEMS and drives up SPECIES EXTINCTION. It also increases chance of emerging ZOONOSES.

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Synonyms

8 entry terms
  • Wildlife Trafficking
  • Trade, Wildlife
  • Trafficking, Wildlife
  • Wildlife Trades
  • Wildlife Traffickings
  • Wildlife Poaching
  • Poaching, Wildlife
  • Wildlife Poachings

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10 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, psychology, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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History Note

2023

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Previous Indexing

  • Animals, Wild (2002-2022)
  • Commerce (2002-2022)

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Tree Number

  1. I03.915w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Wildlife Trade. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000094462. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000094462
  2. Wildlife Trade. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_trade
  3. Wildlife Trade. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1141338