Brief description
Assessment of trade in Australian syngnathids was estimated from semi-structured interviews with traditional medicine merchants and aquarium businesses in Perth, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane. A database of official records of international trade in syngnathids was also sourced from Department of Environment & Heritage (Federal).Lineage
Maintenance and Update Frequency: notPlanned
Statement: Database queries from Environment Australia Wildlife Trade Database, trader surveys through structured questionnaires (see Martin-Smith et al., 2003), structured interviews with government officials, NGO representatives, aquarists, fishers (see Martin-Smith & Vincent, 2006).
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CreditProject Seahorse
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Chocolaterie Guylian S.A.
Chocolaterie Guylian S.A.
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British Airways Assisting Conservation
British Airways Assisting Conservation
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The Community Fund, U.K.
The Community Fund, U.K.
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GlaxoSmithKline
GlaxoSmithKline
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Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, U.K.
Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, U.K.
Purpose
Estimation of levels of trade in syngnathids to and from Australia.
Estimation of levels of trade in syngnathids to and from Australia.
Created: 04 12 2007
Data time period: 2001 to 12 2005
text: westlimit=112; southlimit=-44; eastlimit=154; northlimit=-9
Subjects
ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES |
BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION |
Biological Sciences |
BIOSPHERE |
EARTH SCIENCE |
ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS |
Ecology |
Endangered Species |
Fish |
Freshwater Ecology |
Marine and Estuarine Ecology (Incl. Marine Ichthyology) |
Pipefish |
Pipehorse |
Population Ecology |
SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS |
Sea dragons |
Seahorse |
Syngnathid sp. |
Trade |
biota |
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