Takahiro KUBO

Unintended effects of Japan’s wildlife trade bans on 3 species.

Trade in these species dropped but shifted to other vulnerable species, highlighting the need for consumer research, monitoring and enforcement beyond banned species.

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Conservation Behavior Change Task Force | Home The loss of biodiversity is influenced by the choices we consciously make, and given the importance of this issue the IUCN through its Commision for Species Survival (SSC) and Commission on Education ...

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Trump Administration Sued for Freezing Funds That Help Protect Vulnerable Species Like Rhinos and Elephants Environmentalists are urging the Trump administration to reverse a decision to freeze funding for important conservation work aimed at protecting iconic at-risk species, which includes anti-poaching patrols for vulnerable elephants and rhinos. The Center for Biological Diversity sent a notice of intent to sue to the administration on Wednesday over the funding cuts. “The Trump administration’s funding freeze for anti-poaching patrols and other international conservation work is maddening, heartbreaking, and very illegal,” said Sarah Uhlemann, the Center for Biological Diversity’s international program director, in a press release from the nonprofit environmental organization.

Trump Administration Sued for Freezing Funds That Help Protect Vulnerable Species Like Rhinos and Elephants

Environmentalists are urging the Trump administration to reverse a decision to freeze funding for important conservation work aimed at protecting iconic at-risk species, which includes…

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Disease outbreak in wildlife changes online sales of management items Infectious diseases of wildlife cause human health hazards and economic losses. However, it is unclear how outbreaks affect human behaviour in relatio…

New!! 🐗 💵 Analysis of online sales showed that outbreaks of infectious diseases in wildlife changed people's #behavior in terms of countermeasures: From active to passive management.
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Banning threatened species trade can incrase trades of non-banned species - evdence from Japan based on the synthetic difference-in-differences approach. Great work!

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Banning wildlife trade can increase trade of other threatened species Wildlife trade bans can encourage buyers and sellers to trade in similar species that haven’t been banned but may still be endangered.

New study! 🚨 Banning wildlife trade can increase trade in other threatened species 🚨

We find Japan’s ban on 3 species led to rise in trade of others. Bans alone aren't enough—we need consumer insights & monitoring to avoid shifting overexploitation elsewhere.

theconversation.com/banning-wild...

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This research took almost four years to publish. I appreciate the great co-authors who I enjoyed chats even in the garden during the Covid-19 era, like @diogoverissimo.bsky.social. I also thank many friends giving helpful comments and suggestions. @wildcru.bsky.social @iccs.bsky.social

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While it is necessary to regulate trade for conservation purposes, if this leads to the overexploitation of other species, it can have the opposite effect.
Therefore, it is necessary to consider the regulation effectiveness and to design a comprehensive policy beyond the policy-targeted species.

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However, there was an unintended “spillover effect” in which the volume of trade in non-regulated species, including threatened species, increased due to the trade ban policy.
In other words, the introduction of the ban might lead negative impacts on the conservation of other threatened species.

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With 11-year online sales data, including before & after the ban, we confirmed that there were almost no illegal sales on the online market for the policy-targeted species after the ban.

18.02.2025 05:52 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

We found 'spillover' effects caused by wildlife trade bans that increase the unregulated trade of threatened species.

Finally out ‼️📣🪲
We found #spillover effects caused by wildlife trade bans that increase the unregulated trade of threatened species.
Ban is an important intervention but not enough for biodiversity conservation.
#wildlifetrade #causalinference #OA
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