A Snapshot of Online Wildlife Trade: Australian e-commerce trade of native and alien pets

Dataset summarising the total number of advertisements and animals for each species detected in online trade on Australian surface web e-commerce from 03/12/2019 to 20/03/2020. Additional dataset summarising the total number of advertisements and animals for each region (as designated by e-commerce platforms) rom 03/12/2019 to 20/03/2020. Note that not all online listings provided location information.