Arctic Tracker / Research

Research

Analyses built from the Arctic Tracker. Each one is computed from a frozen, checksummed copy of the dataset, so its numbers can be checked against the exact data they came from. How the tracker itself is built is on Methods.

CITES & the Arctic

Trading for Conservation: Recorded Trade and Post-Listing Conservation Status in CITES-Listed Arctic Species. The first paper built from the tracker. Manuscript in revision, not yet published.

• The paperWhat it asks, what it draws on from the tracker, and where each part of it can be checked.
• Figures: all 13Each manuscript figure, what it was drawn from, and for the ones with no scripted pipeline, why that is the correct state rather than a gap.
• Dataset: the frozen snapshot, 100 files, 175.4 MiBThe copy of the tracker the paper was analysed from, every file checksummed.
• PipelineHow a number gets into the paper: a deterministic stage, then an LLM-assisted one.
• Effectiveness, and what is reported insteadCategory movement is not effectiveness. The five gates, the species each one excludes, and whether each gate rests on an adopted standard or on this project's own reasoning.
• What this rebuild shows differentlyThree deliberate reductions from the first version of the tracker: no total quantity, fewer seizure records and no unsigned prose, each with its arithmetic and a finding document.