Make way for the InvestEGGator, the decoy egg shedding light on the illegal trade of wildlife

“The insatiable human appetite for wildlife products drives species to extinction, spreads disease and has negative consequences for the economies of source countries.” Thus opens the article, recently published in Current Biology, detailing a new method to investigate illegal trade in turtle eggs by using GPS-enabled decoy eggs. The team, led by researchers from the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology at the University of … Continue reading Make way for the InvestEGGator, the decoy egg shedding light on the illegal trade of wildlife