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Social media–driven recreational foraging threatens China’s coastal and forest ecosystems

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: The rapid expansion of social media has transformed recreational foraging into a widespread, mass-participation activity with growing global relevance. Drawing on emerging patterns observed in China, this Comment highlights how platform-amplified coastal and forest foraging can cause intensive habitat disturbance, overexploitation, and emerging invasion risks. These novel pressures remain poorly monitored and regulated, suggesting similar conservation challenges may arise elsewhere without timely governance, monitoring, and public guidance.

Source: Global Ecology and Conservation

DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2026.e04179

Author: Jingrui Sun

Institution: Yunnan University

Language: English

Topic: Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

Subfield: Global and Planetary Change

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Life on land

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $2,980