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Restricting trade in endangered species can backfire, triggering market booms

  • Written by Annah Lake Zhu, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Berkeley
Restricting trade in endangered species can backfire, triggering market boomsRosewood, the name for several endangered tree species that make beautiful furniture, being loaded in Madagascar. Pierre-Yves Babelon/Shutterstock

Every year humans buy and sell hundreds of millions of wild animals and plants around the world. Much of this commerce is legal, but illegal trade and over-harvesting have driven many species toward...

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