Correction to: J. For. Res. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-021-01306-y

The article “The dissemination of relevant information on wildlife utilization and its connection with the illegal trade in wildlife”, written by Zhifan Song · Qiang Wang · Zhen Miao· Wei Zhang and Xuehong Zhou, was originally published electronically on the publisher's internet portal on 11th March 2021 without open access. With the author(s)' decision to opt for Open Choice the copyright of the article changed on 16th March 2021 to © The Author(s) 2021 and the article is forthwith distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The original article has been corrected.

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