Reptile poaching in Balochistan (Pakistan) is on a decreasing trend but still troublesome

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Tagged conservation, illegal trade, pandemic, PetTrade, Poaching, reptiles, Reptilia, snakes, wildlife tradeLeave a comment

May 14, 2020

A view of wooden boxes for transportation of reptiles by illegal collectors.

Since 2013, following a strict enforcement of provincial wildlife legislation in the less studied regions of Asia, the overall trend of illegal reptile poaching is steadily decreasing. Despite that, the issue is not yet resolved and poached reptiles are largely destined not only for the international pet trade, but also utilised in folk medicines and snake charmer shows, according to a recent study, published in the open-access journal Herpetozoa.

Austrian Herpetological Society’s journal Herpetozoa moves to Pensoft’s ARPHA platform

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Tagged academic journals, academic publishing, ARPHA, ARPHA platform, biodiversity, herpetology, herps, journal publishing, new journal, open access journals, Pensoft, scholarly journals, scholarly publishing, zoologyLeave a comment

May 15, 2019

Newly published research articles demonstrate numerous innovative features to the benefit of readers, authors and all other users Published since 1988 by the Austrian Herpetological Society (ÖGH, Österreichische Gesellschaft für Herpetologie), the renowned peer-reviewed, open-access Herpetozoa is added to the growing portfolio of international scientific journals published on the ARPHA scholarly platform, as a result of a new partnership with scholarly […]