Species Use Database

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What is it being used for? Is the use sustainable?
Is the species in use threatend with extinction?

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Target species scientific name Common name(s) Geographic location IUCN Red List status Purpose(s) of end use Practice of use Record considered ecologically sustainable / unsustainable Publication date Entered
Apis mellifera (scutellata) (African) Honey bee Nigeria
Food and feed Collecting or harvesting parts or products from wild animals (e.g., eggs, wild honey, vicuna fibre) Yes, considered sustainable 2012 2 years 4 months ago
Neophron oercnopterus Egyptian vultures Nigeria
Medicine and hygiene Hunting and/or Trapping of live terrestrial and aerial animals not recorded 2020 6 months 3 weeks ago
Necrosyrtes monachus Hooded Vultures Nigeria
CR
Critically Endangered
 Food and feed, Medicine and hygiene Hunting and/or Trapping of live terrestrial and aerial animals not recorded 2013 6 months 4 weeks ago
Gyps africanus White-baked vulture Nigeria
CR
Critically Endangered
 Medicine and hygiene Hunting and/or Trapping of live terrestrial and aerial animals not recorded 2020 6 months 3 weeks ago
Gyps africanus White-backed Vulture Nigeria
CR
Critically Endangered
 Food and feed, Medicine and hygiene Hunting and/or Trapping of live terrestrial and aerial animals not recorded 2013 6 months 3 weeks ago
Gyps rueppelli Rüppell’s Vulture Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, United Republic of
CR
Critically Endangered
 Food and feed, Medicine and hygiene Hunting and/or Trapping of live terrestrial and aerial animals not recorded 2017 6 months 3 weeks ago
Loxodonta africana African bush elephant Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo
EN
Endangered
 Learning and education, Conservation Management Watching/experiencing terrestrial, aerial, or aquatic fauna and flora in the wild No, sustainability not determined 5 months 2 weeks ago