Mongabay: Keeping track of the number of wild animals killed illegally has never been easy. From counting carcasses, to looking at official records and trade logs, managers have had to innovate. Now, a recent paper in the journal Biological Conservation has suggested simple recipe-book mathematics as a tool to get more accurate numbers.
As populations change over time, they follow certain patterns when they are not disturbed in any way. After counting populations and getting real time data overtime, scientists…

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