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CITES & the Arctic

Trading for Conservation: Recorded Trade and Post-Listing Conservation Status in CITES-Listed Arctic Species. Manuscript in revision, not yet published.

What it asks

Whether the conservation status of CITES-listed Arctic species has held, improved or deteriorated since each was first listed, read alongside the trade recorded in them. It reports trajectories and does not attribute them to a cause.

What it was analysed from

A frozen copy of the tracker: 100 deposited files, 175.4 MiB, every one checksummed. The files, their checksums and how to cite them are on the Dataset page, and how its numbers were produced is on Pipeline.

Its figures

1. Figure 1: Arctic definition
2. Figure 2: CITES structure
3. Figure 3: species and appendices
4. Figure 4: status heatmap
5. Figure 5: reservations by state
6. Figure 6: trade volume and status
7. Figure 7: wild-sourced trade volumes
8. Figure 8: IWT seizures
9. Figure 9: importing states and partners
10. Figure 10: status trends
11. Figure 11: status patterns
12. Figure 12: what the audit questions measure
13. Figure 13: the evaluation pipeline

Each figure's page gives its data inputs, its processing steps, the extent of LLM involvement and how it was validated. The index is on Figures.