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Belt and Road Initiative may create new supplies for illegal wildlife trade in large carnivores

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Fig. 1: The BRI in west and central Asia.

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M.S.F. was supported by a research fellowship from the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford. A.H. was supported by the Oxford Martin Programme on the Illegal Wildlife Trade.

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  1. Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Mohammad S. Farhadinia, Amy Hinsley & David W. Macdonald

  2. College of Forestry, Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Aishwarya Maheshwari

  3. Department of Animal Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Muhammad Ali Nawaz

  4. Department of Wildlife Ecology and Management, Faculty of Forestry, Duzce University, Duzce, Turkey

    Hüseyin Ambarlı

  5. Institute of Zoology, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

    Mariya Alexeevna Gritsina

  6. Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity of Kazakhstan, Astana, Kazakhstan

    Maxim A. Koshkin

  7. Ilbirs Foundation, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

    Tatjana Rosen

  8. Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Amy Hinsley

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Farhadinia, M.S., Maheshwari, A., Nawaz, M.A. et al. Belt and Road Initiative may create new supplies for illegal wildlife trade in large carnivores. Nat Ecol Evol 3, 1267–1268 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0963-6

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