Becoming unsustainable? Recent trends in the formal sector of insect trading in Papua New Guinea

ORYX

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 386-389

  Small, Rob D S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Butterfly ranching; Insect collecting; Ornithoptera spp.; Papua New Guinea; Sustainable use

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; CITES; ENDEMIC SPECIES; LOGGING (TIMBER); MINING; RANCHING; SUSTAINABILITY;

MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

HEXAPODA; ORNITHOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 35348996185     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: 13653008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605307001211     Document Type: Article

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