期刊
CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
卷 35, 期 4, 页码 1130-1139出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13675
关键词
big data; dark web; deep web; e‐ commerce; pet trade; social media; surface web; web scraping; comercio en lí nea; macrodatos; mercado de mascotas; redes sociales; web oscura; web profunda; web superficial; web scraping
资金
- Centre for Invasive Species Solutions [PO1-I-002]
There is a rapid development in using the internet to quantify the scale of wildlife trade, but there is currently a lack of an accessible framework for locating relevant websites and collecting data. Researchers can tailor their search keywords based on their interests for systematically locating relevant content through internet searches.
The unrivaled growth in e-commerce of animals and plants presents an unprecedented opportunity to monitor wildlife trade to inform conservation, biosecurity, and law enforcement. Using the internet to quantify the scale of the wildlife trade (volume and frequency) is a relatively recent and rapidly developing approach that lacks an accessible framework for locating relevant websites and collecting data. We produced an accessible guide for internet-based wildlife trade surveillance. We detailed a repeatable method involving a systematic internet search, with search engines, to locate relevant websites and content. For data collection, we highlight web-scraping technology as an efficient way to collect data in an automated fashion at regularly timed intervals. Our guide is applicable to the multitude of trade-based contexts because researchers can tailor search keywords for specific taxa or derived products and locations of interest. We provide information for working with the diversity of websites used in wildlife trade. For example, to locate relevant content on social media (e.g., posts or groups), each social media platform should be examined individually via the site's internal search engine. A key advantage of using the internet to study wildlife trade is the relative ease of access to an increasing amount of trade-related data. However, not all wildlife trade occurs online and it may occur on unobservable sections of the internet.
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