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| Fraser, B. | |
| China's lust for jaguar fangs imperils big cats - wildlife traffickers in South America seek body parts from protected species | |
| 2018 Nature (555): 13-14 | |
In South America there is an ongoing trade in parts of bodies, especially fangs of jaguars. often there are chinese workers from big chinese companies involved in the trade of these items to China. In China is an enormous need for these items in the chinese medicine. There may be operating organized poaching rings in thes hunting and trading. But beside the loss and fragmentation of habitat through agriculture, one must admit, that retaliatory killing of the top predator is one of the hardest threat to jaguars. To mitigate this wildlife-livestock conflict measures have been taken in electric fences or guarding animals and so on. With genetic analysis it is even possible to assign the body parts of jaguars to the originating populations. |
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