China's online parrot trade: Generation length and body mass determine sales volume via price.
Animal welfare
Conservation
Phylogenetic path analysis
Price elasticity of demand
Wildlife trade
Journal
Global ecology and conservation
ISSN: 2351-9894
Titre abrégé: Glob Ecol Conserv
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101675713
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Sep 2020
Sep 2020
Historique:
received:
10
01
2020
revised:
27
03
2020
accepted:
01
04
2020
pubmed:
16
4
2020
medline:
16
4
2020
entrez:
16
4
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The wildlife trade threatens global biodiversity and animal welfare, where parrots are among the taxa most frequently traded, supplying exotic pets and captive breeders worldwide. Using phylogenetic path analysis, we examine how biological factors interact with price to influence online protected parrot trade volumes in China, using transactions recorded for 46 species (n = 5862 individuals). Trade was greatest in smaller, faster breeding species that commanded a lower price. This price effect followed the economic law of demand, with Relatively Inelastic Demand (-0.758), outweighing indicators of 'quality' such as body coloration, and conservation status. We identify two areas of concern: those larger, slower-breeding, rarer species, even though sold at lower numbers, may be at conservation risk if harvested from the wild. In contrast, the sheer numbers (over 90% of the individuals were under median generation length, body mass and/or price) and ready availability of smaller and more common species comprises a substantial overall animal welfare issue, given that the capture, importation, or captive breeding of many parrot species in China is illegal and thus unregulated. Our investigation highlights the importance of properly understanding the internal relations among drivers of wildlife trade to inform appropriate management.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32292803
doi: 10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e01047
pii: S2351-9894(20)30089-5
pii: e01047
pmc: PMC7144616
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
e01047Informations de copyright
© 2020 The Authors.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
All authors have no competing interests to declare.
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