https://www.jonathankolby.com/home daily 1.0 2021-09-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/610ad9174340923e8951c62d/1628173680624-CQ91M2WXE1FAXJ36UVZT/DSC01876-2.jpg Jonathan Kolby Science & Conservation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/610ad9174340923e8951c62d/1628176261830-2FDGS7S7UN6E1Y8W9G1N/61059894_10156417071756139_8309931174164168704_n.jpg Jonathan Kolby Science & Conservation For the past 15 years, while working for the US Fish & Wildlife Service in wildlife trade regulation, my personal research focus has been the global amphibian extinction crisis. Beginning is the late 1900’s, a global disease event started causing species around the world to become extinct, and it continues today. One particularly deadly pair of pathogens, called amphibian chytrid fungus and ranavirus, are at the center of this phenomenon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/610ad9174340923e8951c62d/1628176352411-C0DDNXLJ69Z90HS6K212/1589982312118.jpg Jonathan Kolby Science & Conservation - Amphibian chytrid fungus has already spread to over 60 countries around the world and dozens of species have now vanished forever. This is why I’m working with the Honduras Amphibian Rescue & Conservation Center to help protect endangered species from extinction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/610ad9174340923e8951c62d/1628175249986-XS1MI1LSP5LWPN7T7JMW/salies+square.jpg Jonathan Kolby Science & Conservation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/610ad9174340923e8951c62d/1628175423102-Y1ZJ0IB6CZMX010Q1T5N/197441101_10158281141356139_7795626151280268867_n.jpg Jonathan Kolby Science & Conservation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/610ad9174340923e8951c62d/1628175490432-NMY1NS4XA1280L2WQ30H/DSC_0088.JPG Jonathan Kolby Science & Conservation https://www.jonathankolby.com/wildlife-trade daily 0.75 2022-07-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/610ad9174340923e8951c62d/1633172578644-DHGBV4MNOU0TUBPLACC5/image-asset.jpeg Wildlife Trade - UPDATE: I recently produced this Identification Guide to Tortoises & Freshwater Turtles for the CITES Secretariat. The purpose of this guidebook is to support the work of customs and wildlife trade enforcement officers anywhere in the world. Many wildlife parts and products are difficult to recognize and I hope this improves regulation and monitoring to ensure trade is legal & sustainable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/610ad9174340923e8951c62d/1628164953409-F64BPUKYL8LZ8STP7XYR/DSC_0415edited.jpg Wildlife Trade - To protect species from over exploitation and extinction, we need to closely monitor and regulate this trade. But first, you must understand the the trade regulation processes, the laws and policies that are enforced, and the language of wildlife trade data. I enjoy providing training to diverse audiences in all of these topics. This is my area of expertise, which I developed over the course of 10 years as a Wildlife Inspector and CITES Specialist for the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Part of my role was to create and curate these data, and help translate them into outreach materials. I now work as a consultant to help governments, academic researchers, NGO’s, and stakeholders understand international wildlife trade processes and analyze these data to improve compliance and sustainability. Most of these data originate in either the USFWS LEMIS database or the CITES wildlife trade database and can answer questions such as: What data elements are recorded as wildlife is imported & exported? What are the most common wildlife species & products illegally traded by the USA? How many animals are imported into the USA without disease screening? Is the level of trade in certain species increasing or decreasing? Which kinds of wildlife trade violations occur most frequently? Do certain species warrant changes in trade or conservation policies? Some of these fundamental questions are much more complex to accurately answer than they first appear. I’m interested in providing consultancies in this dynamic field of research at the intersection of conservation science, sustainability, and policy. The personal experience I gained by physically handling these shipments as a law enforcement officer allows me to provide you with deeper insight about these activities than just looking at data number and codes in a spreadsheet. Instead, I can also tell you the stories they represent and recreate the chain of events that occurred. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/610ad9174340923e8951c62d/1632215197952-RZ2XTJJOGH9JUTAXFJEJ/big+head+turtle+snip.PNG Wildlife Trade - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/610ad9174340923e8951c62d/eff2ac92-3992-43ad-a448-23e2bfbf8b7d/IMG_5205.JPG Wildlife Trade https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/610ad9174340923e8951c62d/b0f42fca-7da2-442b-91d9-a166cc89b9b2/Dyed+Xenopus+laevis+for+pet+trade.JPG Wildlife Trade https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/610ad9174340923e8951c62d/9ecd5b19-f86b-4734-ad7f-394c57503837/IMG_5188.JPG Wildlife Trade https://www.jonathankolby.com/wildlife-disease daily 0.75 2022-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/610ad9174340923e8951c62d/1628164530634-UCDJPOV59AJB5FJYM4B0/DSC_0178edited.jpg Wildlife Disease - Unfortunately, deadly wildlife diseases continue to spread around the world through international trade and governments have been slow to react. Several months before the COVID19 pandemic emerged, I decided to devote more of my time to help design wildlife trade policies that could enable proactive surveillance and disease control options. Is a “cleaner” wildlife trade system possible? Most species of animals enter the United States without any testing for the diseases they may carry. I was shocked to experience this policy gap first-hand, and I then explored this deeper for my PhD, where I discovered incredibly high levels of fungal and viral pathogens in traded amphibians. Thousands of species around the world are presently at risk of extinction due to these pathogens– and we have virtually no laws to prevent this. To learn more about this crisis, read my story for National Geographic: To prevent the next pandemic, it’s the legal wildlife trade we should worry about. Most of the investments made to prevent future pandemics focus on illegal wildlife trade, but I believe this is a serious mistake & represents a misunderstanding of trade dynamics. 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