Work together to crack wildlife trade

摘要

There is no single solution to monitoring illegal wildlife trade (L. F. Toledo et al. Nature 483, 36; 2012), which is widespread, adaptive and sophisticated. Extensive reforms are needed to expand government monitoring and reporting, and to include a wider range of detection strategies and non-government stakeholders (J. Phelps et al. Science 330,1752-1753; 2010). Government agencies are largely limited to regulating wildlife trade through monitoring and enforcement, mainly confined to checkpoints such as airports.