A Literature Synthesis of Actions to Tackle Illegal Parrot Trade

The order Psittaciformes is one of the most prevalent groups in illegal wildlife trade. Efforts to understand this threat have focused on describing elements trade itself: actors, extraction rates, and routes. However, development policy-oriented interventions also requires an understanding how research aims actions are distributed across chain, regions, species. We used action-based approach review documents published at a global scale analyze patterns actions. Research increased exponentially recent decades, recording 165 species from 46 genera, with over representation American Australasian genera. Most provided basic knowledge for intermediary side chain. Aims such as identification network zoonosis control, aiding physical detection had numerous but scarcely cited (low growth rate), while behavior change highest rate. Americas diversity aims, contributing knowledge, implementation, monitoring whole Better supply dynamics local markets, actor typology, interactions needed. Protecting areas, livelihood incentives, legal substitutes under-explored parrots, emerging.