我国灵长类动物种类日益受到合法和非法贸易的威胁,主要用于生物医学研究或作为宠物和传统医学,然而,大多数来自中国的贸易报告都关注国际贸易。为了评估全国灵长类动物交易数量的代理,我们量化了从2000年到2017年在独特的网络新闻报道中出现的本地灵长类动物物种的报告数量,包括其识别的准确性,他们被没收或获救的地点,以及他们获救时的状况。要测量这些类别的时间趋势,时间跨度分为三个部分:2000-2005年,2006-2011年和2012-2017年。在372份新闻报道中,共报道了14个物种的735个个体,主要是恒河猴(n=165,22.5%,猕猴)和两种慢loresis(n=487,66.3%,Nycticebusspp。).在同一时期,在《濒危野生动植物种国际贸易公约》数据库中,恒河猴的活个体被记录了206次(70,949人),而慢lorises只被记录了四次(9个人),表明该物种非法来自中国或非法进口到中国。由于获救地点在居民区(n=211,56.7%),大多数灵长类动物似乎是作为宠物私人饲养的。2006-2011年市场救助比例较高(χ2=8.485,df=2,p=0.014),可能部分归因于自2003年严重急性呼吸道综合症(SARS)爆发以来对野生动植物市场的集约化管理。超过一半(68.3%,502个个体)的灵长类个体是不健康的,获救时受伤或死亡。因此,应向畜牧和兽医专业人员提供身份识别和福利培训以及能力建设,以及通过提高认识倡议对公众进行教育。一些物种的存在增加,尤其是慢的Lorises,随着禁区人口的减少,还表明,迫切需要公众意识到将这些分类单元作为宠物饲养的非法性质。
Primate species have been increasingly threatened by legal and illegal trade in China, mainly for biomedical research or as pets and traditional medicine, yet most
reports on trade from China regard international trade. To assess a proxy for amount of national primate trades, we quantified the number of
reports of native primate species featuring in unique web news
reports from 2000 to 2017, including accuracy of their identification, location where they were confiscated or rescued, and their condition upon rescue. To measure temporal trends across these categories, the time span was divided into three sections: 2000-2005, 2006-2011 and 2012-2017. A total of 735 individuals of 14 species were reported in 372 news
reports, mostly rhesus macaques (n = 165, 22.5%, Macaca mulatta) and two species of slow lorises (n = 487, 66.3%, Nycticebus spp.). During the same period, live individuals of rhesus macaques were recorded 206 times (70,949 individuals) in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora Trade Database, whereas slow lorises were only recorded four times (nine individuals), indicating that the species originated illegally from China or were illegally imported into China. Due to their rescued locations in residential areas (n = 211, 56.7%), most primates appeared to be housed privately as pets. A higher proportion of \'market\' rescues during 2006-2011 (χ2 = 8.485, df = 2, p = 0.014), could be partly attributed to an intensive management on wildlife markets since the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003. More than half (68.3%, 502 individuals) of the primate individuals were unhealthy, injured or dead when rescued. Thus, identification and welfare training and capacity-building should be provided to husbandry and veterinary professionals, as well as education to the public through awareness initiatives. The increase in presence of some species, especially slow lorises, with a declining population in restricted areas, also suggests the urgent need for public awareness about the illegal nature of keeping these taxa as pets.