Plant poaching in southern Africa is aided by taxonomy : is a return to Caput bonae spei inevitable?

dc.contributor.authorSmith, Gideon F.
dc.contributor.authorFigueiredo, Estrela
dc.contributor.authorVictor, Janine
dc.contributor.authorKlopper, Ronell Renett
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-21T10:52:51Z
dc.date.available2024-08-21T10:52:51Z
dc.date.issued2023-08
dc.description.abstractIn recent years the poaching of, especially, succulent plants from the wild in South Africa has developed into an enormous, illegal industry, with the number of such plants confiscated increasing annually by over 250%. It has been estimated that more than 1.5 million plants have been illegally removed from the wild in the past three years. This conservation crisis has seen an unprecedented surge in poaching of representatives of families such as the Aizoaceae, Anacampserotaceae, Asphodelaceae, Crassulaceae, and several others, given that South Africa and neighbouring countries are host to about 45% of the known succulents of the world. Apart from annotated, geo-referenced (type and other) herbarium specimens, further easily accessible sources of information on accurate occurrences of species are type localities published in protologues of plant names, and online resources that aim to mobilise biodiversity data. We propose drastic measures regarding the non-disclosure of accurate locality information on specimens, in the literature, and on websites.en_US
dc.description.departmentPlant Production and Soil Scienceen_US
dc.description.librarianhj2024en_US
dc.description.sdgSDG-15:Life on landen_US
dc.description.urihttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/19968175en_US
dc.identifier.citationSmith, G.F., Figueiredo, E., Victor, J. & Klopper, R.R. 2023, 'Plant poaching in southern Africa is aided by taxonomy : is a return to Caput bonae spei inevitable?', Taxon, vol. 72, no. 4, pp. 717-723, doi : 10.1002/tax.12882.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1996-8175 (print)
dc.identifier.issn0040-0262 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1002/tax.12882
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/97776
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherWileyen_US
dc.rights© 2023 International Association for Plant Taxonomy. This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article : 'Plant poaching in southern Africa is aided by taxonomy : is a return to Caput bonae spei inevitable?', Taxon, vol. 72, no. 4, pp. 717-723, 2023, doi : 10.1002/tax.12882. The definite version is available at : http://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/sys.en_US
dc.subjectConservationen_US
dc.subjectExact locationen_US
dc.subjectSucculentsen_US
dc.subjectPoachingen_US
dc.subjectSDG-15: Life on landen_US
dc.titlePlant poaching in southern Africa is aided by taxonomy : is a return to Caput bonae spei inevitable?en_US
dc.typePostprint Articleen_US

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