Journal article
Snakes and ladders: a review of ball python production in West Africa for the global pet market
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The ball python (Python regius) is the most traded, CITES listed, live animal exported from Africa. Recent studies have raised concerns as to whether production methods in Africa are sustainable, humane and compliant with legislation. To aid future management we explored export patterns, using the CITES and U.S. LEMIS database, for live ball pythons from across their range in West Africa to identify the main exporters and the main markets supplied, and to assess associated trends, and complia...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.3897/natureconservation.41.51270
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- Publisher:
- Pensoft Publishers Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Nature Conservation Journal website
- Volume:
- 41
- Pages:
- 1-24
- Publication date:
- 2020-07-28
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-06-08
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1313-2652
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- English
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1110944
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- pubs:1110944
- Deposit date:
- 2020-06-09
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- Copyright holder:
- Lauren A. Harrington et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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- Copyright Lauren A. Harrington et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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