Evaluating the relationships between the legal and illegal international wildlife trades
D. Tittensor, M. B. J. Harfoot, C. McLardy, G. Britten, K. Kecse-Nagy, B. Landry, W. Outhwaite, B. Price, P. Sinovas, J. Blanc, N. Burgess, K. Malsch
The paper analyzes the relationship between legal and illegal wildlife trade using seizure and legal trade data from the US and EU, finding a weak positive correlation in the US but not the EU.
bioRxiv · Aug 13, 2019Ecology