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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
Rosewood, 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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