Title
Silent Steppe- The Illegal Wildlife Trade Crisis Mongolia
Author(s)
James R. Wingard and Peter Zahler
Abstract
From 1926 to 1985, Mongolia delivered to its northern neighbor a total of 119 million furs, 13 million kilograms of game meat, and 1.5 million tons of elk antlers, trading as many as 3.5 million animals in a single year. Recently, the opening of borders with China, with its dominant economy and enormous capacity to absorb resources, has resulted in a shift in trade routes but a rapid re-escalation in wildlife trade, with concomitant declines in economically important wildlife species.
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