Trade-driven extinctions and near-extinctions of avian taxa in Sundaic Indonesia
Trade-driven extinctions and near-extinctions of avian taxa in Sundaic Indonesia
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2016
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J. Eaton;C. Shepherd;F. Rheindt;S. V. B. J. B. C. HARRIS-S.-V.-B.-J.-B.-C.-HARRIS-2099469820;D. Wilcove
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J. Eaton;C. Shepherd;F. Rheindt;S. V. B. J. B. C. HARRIS-S.-V.-B.-J.-B.-C.-HARRIS-2099469820;D. Wilcove
There is growing concern over the impact of commercial trade (for pets, food, ornaments and medicines) on animal populations in South-East Asia, and over the number of species being pushed towards extinction as a consequence (Nijman 2010, Duckworth et al. 2012). Populations of numerous vertebrate taxa from fish to mammals are in serious decline in the wild owing to the pressure exerted on them by illegal and/or unsustainable legal trade, compounded by unchecked demand, weak legislation, lax enforcement, institutional indifference and systemic corruption (Nijman 2010). Birds are reportedly the most traded among the higher classes of animals (Bush et al. 2014), and Indonesia, with its long tradition of bird-keeping (Jepson & Ladle 2005) and its high levels of biological diversity already under great pressure from habitat loss (Myers et al. 2000), holds the greatest number of globally threatened bird species for which trade is registered as a significant threat—28, with Brazil following at 24 and China at 18 (A. Symes in litt. 2015). In recent years some first steps have been taken to document the scale of the bird trade in Sundaic Indonesia (Jepson & Ladle 2005, Chng et al. 2015) and its impact on some species (Shepherd 2006, 2007, 2011, Chng et al. 2015, Harris et al. 2015, Shepherd et al. 2015), as well as to provide a safeguard against the extinction of some of these species through the establishment of ex situ breeding populations (Collar et al. 2012, Owen et al. 2014). These initiatives have been largely extemporary in nature, with the ex situ work in particular driven by alarm and opportunity, much of it led by what is now called the Threatened Asian Songbird Alliance (TASA), operating as a formal body of the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA). Here, therefore, we seek to assemble and assess the evidence to provide an overview of how serious trade is as an existential threat to avian taxa in Sundaic Indonesia.