Julio Hernandez-Castro

Assessing the extent and nature of wildlife trade on the dark web.

Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology August 1, 2016 Joseph R Harrison, David L Roberts, Julio Hernandez-Castro 110 citations

Use of the internet as a trade platform has resulted in a shift in the illegal wildlife trade. Increased scrutiny of illegal wildlife trade has led to concerns that online trade of wildlife will move onto the dark web. To provide a baseline of illegal wildlife trade on the dark web, we downloaded and archived 9852 items (individual posts) from the dark web, then searched these based on a list...