Understanding and Navigating International Wildlife Trade Data: Avoiding Pitfalls Caused by Systemic Detail Obfuscation
摘要
International wildlife crime threatens affected species with potentially irreversible population decline (Zimmerman, 2003; Duffy, 2022). While quantification is difficult, much of this threat is presumed to stem from pressure posed by wildlife trade, especially wildlife trafficking. Efforts to regulate wildlife trade, and therefore support and promote sustainable use, are often challenged by illegal and unreported commercial movement of wildlife commodities. At the international scale, this commerce can be worth several billion USD (van Uhm, 2016).