Attitudes toward consumption and conservation of tigers in China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Gratwicke, Brian ^a,h   Mills, Judy ^a,i   Dutton, Adam ^b   Gabriel, Grace ^c   Long, Barney ^d   Seidensticker, John ^h   Wright, Belinda ^e   You, Wang ^f   Zhang, Li ^g  

^a National Fish and Wildlife Foundation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE   (United States)

^d WORLD WILDLIFE FUND   (United States)

^e Wildlife Protection Society of India   (India)

^f Horizon Group   (China)

^g BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

ⁱ Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL PRODUCT; ARTICLE; CHINA; CHINESE MEDICINE; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LAW; MARKETING; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; TIGER; URBAN POPULATION; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PUBLIC OPINION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CHINA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; PUBLIC OPINION; TIGERS;

EID: 49749113223     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002544     Document Type: Article

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