Pangolins in peril: using local hunters' knowledge to conserve elusive species in Vietnam

By P. Newton, Nguyen Van Thai, S. Roberton, D. Bell. 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Epidemiology, Virology

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Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) (2016, background): “The species has been extirpated from much of the lowland areas of Myanmar and Thailand; is increasingly rare in Thailand; has severely reduced populations in Lao PDR (to as little as 1% of the population in the 1960s according to villagers); has “declined severely” and “massively” since about 1990 a”
Molecular tracing of confiscated pangolin scales for conservation and illegal trade monitoring in Southeast Asia (2015, background): “Many populations may now be locally extinct and recovery of the small number of individuals remaining in some severely impacted areas is likely to be slow (Wu et al., 2002; Newton et al., 2008).”
Using local ecological knowledge to determine status and threats of the Critically Endangered Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla) in Hainan, China (2016, background): “…being small-bodied mammals, pangolins are morphologically distinctive with important economic and cultural value and are unlikely to be misidentified even by untrained respondents, and may therefore constitute useful target species for LEK-based research (Newton et al., 2008; Thapa et al., 2014).”
Assessing Africa‐Wide Pangolin Exploitation by Scaling Local Data (2018, methodology): “…time period across Africa from a variety of “sources” (published papers, reports from nongovern-mental organizations, PhD or Master’s theses, or unpub-lished data collected using a published methodology) us-ing a snowballing technique (Noy 2008), and searching reference lists and online libraries.”
Evaluating methods for detecting and monitoring pangolin (Pholidata: Manidae) populations (2019, methodology): “Pangolins are a very recognisable group; nearly all surveys that used this method reported that most respondents were able to recognise or describe a pangolin (e.g., Nash et al., 2016), and sometimes, reportedly, multiple species (Ichu et al., 2017; Newton et al., 2008).”
Field surveys of the Vulnerable pygmy slow loris Nycticebus pygmaeus using local knowledge in Mondulkiri Province, Cambodia (2011, background): “The knowledge of local people regarding the abundance, ecology and distribution of at least some species of local wildlife is becoming a useful component of determining a species’ conservation status (Griffon & Griffon, 2000; Steinmetz, 2004; Steinmetz et al., 2006; Newton et al., 2008).”
Understanding markets to conserve trade-threatened species in CITES (2015, background): “However, it is understood that populations in China were commercially extinct by the mid-1990s, and which has since been dependent on imports, mainly from Southeast Asia (Fig.”