Pet sharks have become cool, but is owning them ethical?
Mongabay News, 19 September 2025 – Pet sharks may seem like the next “cool” exotic animal to own, but Monica Biondo warns that the ethics behind keeping them – from …
Enhancing wildlife trade monitoring in the European Union – No need to re-invent the wheel
Ecology and Evolution , 29 August 2025: Biodiversity loss is driven by overexploitation and agriculture, with global wildlife trade playing a significant role in natural resource depletion. The trade, encompassing …
Time to Confront the Aquarium Trade’s ‘Gray Areas’
The Revelator, 16 December 2024 – “We’ve got to shrink the flavors of fishes available to hobbyists”, says a ornamental fish trade veteran and tells about these gray areas: the …
GLITSS Webinar: Collecting Data on the Marine Ornamental Fish Trade with the EU TRACES Platform
EU COST Action GLITSS, 16 December 2024: Our Webinar for the EU COST Action GLITSS (Globalization, Illicit Trade, Sustainability and Security) on the use of the European TRACES (Trade Control …
Saving Living Jewels: One Woman’s Mission to Shine a Light on the Ornamental Fish Trade
The Revelator, 4 December 2024 – Marine biologist Monica Biondo has spent more than a decade studying the multibillion-dollar market for these colorful fish, which pulls thousands of species from …
33nd Animals Committee meeting to the Convention on International Trade on Endangered Species CITES
12 – 19 July 2024: The 33nd Animals Committee meeting to the Convention on International Trade on Endangered Species CITES took place in Geneva, Switzerland. After the CITES International Technical …
Europe’s ongoing challenge in adequately monitoring the century-old trade of colourful marine ornamental fishes derived from endangered coral reefs
20 June 2024: Presenting our new findings at the 7th European Conference of Conservation Biology in Bologna, Italy. The centuries-old, multi-billion-dollar trade in marine ornamental fishes has never been reliably …
The EU is the largest importer by value of marine ornamental fishes
ANIMALS, 11 June 2024: Our new scientific study shows that Europe represents the largest share by value of marine ornamental fishes. In 2021 this share constituted 24 million Euro. Between …
CITES – International Technical Workshop on the Trade of Marine Ornamental Fishes
CITES, 7 – 10 May 2024: Techical worshop in Brisbane, Australia, under the framework of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES; www.cites.org), …
110 Millionen Meerestiere werden jährlich für Aquarien gefangen – die Hälfte stirbt schon auf dem Lieferweg
GEO, 07.12.2023 – It is surprising and worrying that such a large group of vertebrates can be traded without appropriate regulation and monitoring systems in place, criticised Monica Biondo from …