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Perceptions of the COVID ‐19 pandemic's impact on communities and wildlife trade: Preliminary qualitative analysis from hunters in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos

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doi:10.1111/csp2.12892

Authors

Elizabeth Oneita Davis · Marielle Castaneda · Brian Crudge · Thona Lim · Vichet Roth · Jenny Anne Glikman · Trung Tien Cao

Reported year

2023

Reported language

en

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article

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2026-11-09T19:04:47.744408+00:00

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2026-11-09T19:04:47.744408+00:00

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Institutions reported by the source

California State University, San Marcos · Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas · Instituto de Estudios Sociales Avanzados · University of South-Eastern Norway · Vinh University · Zoological Society of San Diego

Reported affiliation countries

ES · NO · US · VN

Documentary abstract — original language

Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic has accelerated efforts to engage critically with forest‐adjacent, rural, communities who rely on wildlife. We interviewed 109 hunters of wildlife across Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos regarding the effect the COVID‐19 pandemic has had on them, as well as within their communities. We found that “negative economic impacts” was a prevalent theme due to loss of employment, rising prices, and restrictions on trade resulting from city‐wide lockdowns, factory closures, and border closures. In Vietnam, hunting was stated to have increased as young men returned to their villages; however, in Vietnam and Cambodia trade in wildlife was believed to have decreased due to the inability of middlemen traders to travel easily. Our results from Laos illustrated general economic cost, but otherwise no impact of COVID‐19 on hunting and trade in wildlife. Here, we show the complex impacts of a pandemic, with contextually specific conservation positives (such as decreased trade), and conservation negatives (such as increased hunting to supplement loss of employment). We illustrate the importance of establishing sustainable, non‐wildlife‐dependent livelihoods within rural communities, to mitigate hunting and the potential for disease transmission, and the value in engaging with hunters to understand locally and spatially specific trends in global conservation challenges.

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W4319596681

DOI

10.1111/csp2.12892

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VN

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Forest

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• DOI · https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.12892
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