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Online trade of Barbary macaques Macaca sylvanus in Algeria and Morocco

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  1. Oxford Wildlife Trade Research Group, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, OX1 0BP, UK

    Daniel Bergin

  2. Laboratoir de recherche biologie eau et environnement « LBEE » département d’Ecologie, Université 8 mai 1945 Guelma, Guelma, Algeria

    Sadek Atoussi

  3. Department of Anthropology, Durham University, Lower Mountjoy, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK

    Siân Waters

  4. Barbary Macaque Awareness and Conservation, Rue Fez 22, Touta, 93000, Tétouan, Morocco

    Siân Waters

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Bergin, D., Atoussi, S. & Waters, S. Online trade of Barbary macaques Macaca sylvanus in Algeria and Morocco. Biodivers Conserv 27, 531–534 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-017-1434-5

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