WildTrace
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What is seized at US ports, and where does it come from?
US wildlife inspectors seized 19,346 import records of the groups WildTrace follows; most came from China, Indonesia, Mexico.
19,346 import records seized by US inspectors
Who answers
- US Fish and Wildlife Service LEMIS cleaned by Marshall et al. 2025 and Eskew et al. 2020
What the number cannot tell you
It measures where US inspection is strong as much as where trade flows.
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Rebuilt daily from the WildTrace data. Cite: Verma, T. K. (2026). WildTrace: the open atlas of illegal wildlife trade. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.22902819