Data_Sheet_1_Mapping Terra Incognita: An Expert Elicitation of Women's Roles in Wildlife Trafficking.pdf

The gender dimensions of wildlife trafficking remain understudied even though the problem is of great socio-environmental significance. Data about the roles of women in wildlife trafficking offer critically needed indicators that can contribute to building evidence and setting targets for, and monitoring progress of, sustainable and equitable futures. We set three objectives for this research filling a major gap in conservation knowledge: (1) explore expert perceptions of primary roles that women may play in wildlife trafficking, (2) explore expert perceptions of secondary roles that women may play in wildlife trafficking, and (3) explore variability in roles for women in wildlife trafficking. We used an online survey to conduct expert elicitation in February 2020 to achieve objectives. Experts (N = 215) identified key assumptions associated with six primary and 32 secondary roles for women in wildlife trafficking. Results highlight the impacts of wildlife trafficking manifest in varied contexts across society, including persons harmed at local levels such as family members in general, widows and orphans. The perceived roles of women in the wildlife trafficking networks may be factored into transformative solutions to help combat wildlife trafficking and data from expert elicitation can inform future hypotheses and inferences on this topic of broad socio-environmental significance.

野生动物非法交易中的性别维度研究尚不充分，尽管这一问题具有重大的社会环境意义。关于女性在野生动物非法交易中所扮演角色数据，提供了至关重要的指标，这些指标能够有助于构建证据、设定可持续与公平未来的目标，并监测其进展。本研究旨在填补保护知识领域的重大空白，设定了三个研究目标：（1）探讨专家对女性在野生动物非法交易中可能扮演的初级角色的认知，（2）探讨专家对女性在野生动物非法交易中可能扮演的次级角色的认知，（3）探讨女性在野生动物非法交易中所扮演角色存在的差异性。我们于2020年2月通过在线调查进行专家征询，以实现上述目标。专家（N=215）确定了与野生动物非法交易中六种初级角色和32种次级角色相关的关键假设。研究结果突显了野生动物非法交易在社会各层面产生的影响，包括在本地受到伤害的个人，如家庭成员、寡妇和孤儿。女性在野生动物非法交易网络中所扮演的角色认知，可能成为助力打击非法交易的根本性解决方案的因素，而专家征询的数据能够为未来关于这一具有广泛社会环境意义主题的假设和推断提供信息。