International Trade of CITES Listed Bird Species in China

摘要: Commercial trade of wild birds may devastate bird populations. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) controls the species listed its appendices to avoid these being threatened by international trade. China used be one major trading countries with significant foreign countries; other hand, is a country unique avian fauna, many Important Bird Areas critically endangered species. What role world trade? kind insights can we extract from records for improving future management country? We retrieved analyzed CITES 1981 2010 Database maintained United Nations Environment Program World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC). found that: (1) live peaked during late 1990s, then decreased level before surge few years, dynamics affected governmental policy outbreak influenza period. (2) Most frequently traded Appendix were parrots, most which exotic country. (3) Birds mainly commercial purpose. Exotic captive-bred while Chinese internationally captured wild. Since are extinction, should take stricter measures importing wild-captured collaborate original unsustainable harvesting birds. It urgent carry out population surveys those domestic once make better conservation decisions based status In addition, more scientific researchers encouraged participate wildlife misreporting data or biased analyses records.