Quantifying the global patterns and trends of the illegal wildlife trade: from artificial intelligence to financial market analysis

Project Information

WILDTRADE

Grant agreement ID: 802933

DOI 10.3030/802933

Project closed

EC signature date 3 May 2019

Start date 1 June 2019

End date 31 May 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 499 900,00

EU contribution € 1 499 900,00

Coordinated by

HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO
Finland

Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

Open Research Data Pilot

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (22)

"Responsible use of social media data is needed: A reply to Maya-Jariego et al. ""Plenty of black money: Netnography of illegal recreational underwater fishing in southern Spain"""

Author(s): Valerio Sbragaglia; Ricardo A. Correia; Ricardo A. Correia; Enrico Di Minin; Enrico Di Minin
Published in: Marine Policy, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 0308-597X
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104780

Using automated content analysis to monitor global online trade in endemic reptile species

Author(s): Jooel Rinne; Ritwik Kulkarni; Andrea Soriano‐Redondo; Ricardo Correia; Enrico Di Minin
Published in: Diversity and Distributions, Issue 3, 2024, ISSN 1472-4642
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13771

Harnessing online digital data in biodiversity monitoring

Author(s): Andrea Soriano-Redondo; Ricardo A. Correia; Vijay Barve; Thomas M. Brooks; Stuart H. M. Butchart; Ivan Jarić; Ritwik Kulkarni; Richard J. Ladle; Ana Sofia Vaz; Enrico Di Minin
Published in: Plos Biology, Issue 5, 2024, ISSN 1544-9173
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002497

Automated retrieval of information on threatened species from online sources using machine learning

Author(s): Kulkarni, Ritwik; Di Minin, Enrico
Published in: Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2021, ISSN 2041-210X
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.13608

Understanding sentiment of national park visitors from social media data

Author(s): Anna Hausmann, Tuuli Toivonen, Christoph Fink, Vuokko Heikinheimo, Ritwik Kulkarni, Henrikki Tenkanen, Enrico Di Minin
Published in: People and Nature, Issue 2/3, 2020, Page(s) 750-760, ISSN 2575-8314
Publisher: British Ecological Society
DOI: 10.1002/pan3.10130

Digital data sources and methods for conservation culturomics

Author(s): Ricardo A. Correia; Richard J. Ladle; Richard J. Ladle; Ivan Jarić; Ivan Jarić; Ana C. M. Malhado; John C. Mittermeier; Uri Roll; Andrea Soriano-Redondo; Andrea Soriano-Redondo; Diogo Veríssimo; Christoph Fink; Anna Hausmann; Jhonatan Guedes-Santos; Reut Vardi; Enrico Di Minin; Enrico Di Minin
Published in: Conservation Biology, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 0888-8892
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13706

A pan-African spatial assessment of human conflicts with lions and elephants

Author(s): Di Minin, Enrico; Slotow, Rob; Fink; Christoph, Bauer, Hans; Packer, Craig
Published in: Nature Communications, 2021, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23283-w

Mapping the online songbird trade in Indonesia

Author(s): Christoph Fink; Tuuli Toivonen; Tuuli Toivonen; Ricardo A. Correia; Ricardo A. Correia; Enrico Di Minin; Enrico Di Minin
Published in: Applied Geography, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 0143-6228
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/mxkgq

Online sentiment towards iconic species

Author(s): Enrico Di Minin; Enrico Di Minin; Christoph Fink; Anna Hausmann
Published in: Biological Conservation, Issue 2, 2020, ISSN 0006-3207
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2019.108289

Biocultural aspects of species extinctions

Author(s): Richard J. Ladle; Fernanda Alves-Martins; Ana C.M. Malhado; Victoria Reyes-García; Franck Courchamp; Enrico Di Minin; Uri Roll; Ivan Jarić; Ricardo A. Correia
Published in: Cambridge Prisms: Extinction, Vol 1 (2023), Issue 5, 2023, ISSN 2755-0958
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1017/ext.2023.20

Towards automatic detection of wildlife trade using machine vision models

Author(s): Kulkarni, Ritwik; Minin, Enrico Di
Published in: Biological Conservation, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 0006-3207
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2023.109924

The emergence of private land conservation in scientific literature: A review

Author(s): Alvaro Soutullo; Tuuli Toivonen; Gonzalo Cortés Capano; Gonzalo Cortés Capano; Enrico Di Minin; Enrico Di Minin
Published in: Biological Conservation, Issue 1, 2019, ISSN 0006-3207
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2019.07.010

Tracking worldwide interest in sustainable development goals using culturomics

Author(s): Ricardo A. Correia; Enrico Di Minin
Published in: Plos Sustainability and Transformation, Issue 2, 2023, ISSN 2767-3197
Publisher: Plos
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pstr.0000070

How to address data privacy concerns when using social media data in conservation science

Author(s): Enrico Di Minin; Enrico Di Minin; Christoph Fink; Anna Hausmann; Jens Kremer; Ritwik Kulkarni
Published in: Conservation Biology, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 0888-8892
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13708

Quantitative conservation geography

Author(s): Di Minin, Enrico; Correia, Ricardo; Toivonen, Tuuli
Published in: Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 2022, ISSN 0169-5347
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2021.08.009

iEcology: Harnessing Large Online Resources to Generate Ecological Insights

Author(s): Ivan Jarić, Ricardo A. Correia, Barry W. Brook, Jessie C. Buettel, Franck Courchamp, Enrico Di Minin, Josh A. Firth, Kevin J. Gaston, Paul Jepson, Gregor Kalinkat, Richard Ladle, Andrea Soriano-Redondo, Allan T. Souza, Uri Roll
Published in: Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Issue 35/7, 2020, Page(s) 630-639, ISSN 0169-5347
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2020.03.003

Assessing preferences and motivations for owning exotic pets: Care matters

Author(s): Hausmann, Anna; Cortés-Capano, Gonzalo; Fraser, Iain; Di Minin, Enrico
Published in: Biological Conservation, Issue 5, 2023, ISSN 0006-3207
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110007

Dismantling the poachernomics of the illegal wildlife trade

Author(s): Enrico Di Minin; Michael 't Sas Rolfes; Jeanetta Selier; Maxi Louis; Corey J. A. Bradshaw
Published in: Biological Conservation, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 0006-3207
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109418

Exploring the effects of market scarcity on consumers’ demand for rarity in the wildlife trade

Author(s): Anna Hausmann, Gonzalo Cortes-Capano, Enrico Di Minin
Published in: Global Ecology and Conservation, 2023, ISSN 2351-9894
Publisher: Elsevier BV

Consequences of recreational hunting for biodiversity conservation and livelihoods

Author(s): Enrico Di Minin, Hayley S. Clements, Ricardo A.Correia, Gonzalo Cortés-Capano, Christoph Fink, Anna Haukka, Anna Hausmann, Ritwik Kulkarni, Corey J.A. Bradshaw
Published in: One Earth, 2021, ISSN 2590-3322
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2021.01.014

Online wildlife trade in species of conservation concern

Author(s): Andrea Soriano‐Redondo; Haider Alwasiti; Ritwik Kulkarni; Ricardo A. Correia; Sofiya Bryukhova; Nermalie M. Lita; Lodigario A. Rigor; Darwin R. Tejerero; Theresa M. Tenazas; Enrico Di Minin
Published in: Conservation Letters, Vol 16, Iss 6, Pp n/a-n/a (2023), Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 1755-263X
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12985

Ethics in biodiversity conservation: The meaning and importance of pluralism

Author(s): Cortés-Capano, Gonzalo; Hausmann, Anna; Di Minin, Enrico; Kortetmäki, Teea
Published in: Biological Conservation, Issue 5, 2023, ISSN 0006-3207
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109759