Most likely there is no way of knowing. The reason is, so little is known about any species of monitor. So this is only a common sense guess.

Less then one half of one percent, possibly far less.

In other words, more are being eaten by snakes this month. Then have been collected in the last ten years. Same sorta thing goes for raptors, they ate more this year, then have been collected for the pet trade, in the entire history of man. In other words, man is a very small part of this. But we know about what we do. We really do not know what other things do. For instance how many monitors are killed by ants?

If there is a problem, its with habitat destruction. With a major problem being the manifacture of artificial habitats, like farmlands and feral fields. These can really overpopulate a species.

Which brings this full circle, many of the areas where "pet trade" collecting occurs is in these artificial habitats. The reason is, natural habitats are much to hard to collect effectively.

I too would like to hear what someone like Daniel thinks about this question. Cheers

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