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Published September 23, 2019 | Version 1.0.0
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United States LEMIS wildlife trade data curated by EcoHealth Alliance

  • 1. EcoHealth Alliance
  • 2. Brown University
  • 3. IUCN Species Survival Commission; Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas; Provita

Description

Shared here are United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Law Enforcement Management Information System (LEMIS) data on wildlife and wildlife product imports into the United States. This data was obtained via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests by EcoHealth Alliance.

Data were curated, cleaned, and made accessible via an R package interface: https://github.com/ecohealthalliance/lemis.

Additionally, a summary of a portion of the data can be found in Smith et al. 2017, EcoHealth (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-017-1211-7).

lemis_2000_2014_cleaned.csv: This file represents the compiled, cleaned LEMIS data from 2000-2014. This data is identical to the version 1.0.0 dataset available through the lemis R package.

raw_data.zip: This archive contains all of the raw LEMIS data files that are processed and cleaned with the code contained in the 'data-raw' subdirectory of the R package repository.

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Related works

Is documented by
Preprint: 10.1101/780197 (DOI)
Is supplement to
Software: https://github.com/ecohealthalliance/lemis (URL)

References

  • Smith, Kristine M. et al. (2017). Summarizing US wildlife trade with an eye toward assessing the risk of infectious disease introduction. EcoHealth 14: 29-39.