Legal trade of Africa's Rhino horns

Science

Volumn 339, Issue 6123, 2013, Pages 1038-1039

  Biggs, Duan ^a   Courchamp, Franck ^b   Martin, Rowan ^c   Possingham, Hugh P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK MARKET; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; HORN; HUNTING; MARKET SYSTEM; POACHING; TRADE-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS; UNGULATE;

AFRICA; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HORN; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LEGAL ASPECT; MARKETING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHINO; RHINO HORN; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PERISSODACTYLA; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

AFRICA;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; HORNS; PERISSODACTYLA; SOUTH AFRICA;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874381190     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1229998     Document Type: Review

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