Patents can help us understand wildlife trade trends, new study shows

Published on 1 August 2024

Researchers from the Oxford Martin Programme on Wildlife Trade at the University of Oxford have demonstrated that patent data could provide a novel source of evidence that can help identify future commercial trends associated with the overharvesting of wildlife. The findings have been published in Nature Communications.
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