International media coverage of the Bolivian jaguar trade

Articles were collected following the systematic online search strategy for wildlife trade products (Roberts, Mun and Milner-Gulland, 2021). The time range was set as January 1st, 2010 to December 31st, 2019, which broadly coincides with the first report of illegal trade in jaguars that were linked to demand from people of Chinese descent in Bolivia (Nunez, Aliaga Rossel 2014), and exploratory searches before this period were not resulting in media reports. We conducted our searches on the platforms Factiva, WiseSearch, and the search engine Google. Factiva is one of the most frequently used media databases (Macnamara, 2005), and it offers media reports in simplified Chinese-language, Spanish-language and English-language, while WiseSearch is the most comprehensive Chinese media database (Gao et al., 2016). Because the media databases only provide a narrow sample of media content published in major newspapers, we used Google Advanced Search to obtain a larger sample size for analysis. To avoid search biases, a new user profile was set up, Google’s Activity Tracking was turned off and cookies were deleted after each search. The first 100 results of each Google search were collected.