Valorization of reptiles and amphibians from the wildlife trade and ecotourism

It is a long-standing ambition to align conservation requirements and poverty alleviation to engender mutual benefits (D. Brown 1998; Milner-Gulland and Mace 1998; Low et al. 1999). While conservation benefits have been cited globally from the sustainable exploitation of wildlife resources (Norman 1987; Milner-Gulland and Mace 1998), on Madagascar the actual harvesting impacts on wild reptile and amphibian populations, and on the welfare of individual animals, are relatively poorly known. Moreover, in recent years it has been more commonly stated that unsustainable trade in wildlife is one of the major drivers of species decline globally (Gibbons et al. 2000; IPBES...