Understanding wildlife crime in China: Socio-demographic profiling and motivation of offenders

• Mei-Ling Shao,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Southwest China Wildlife Resources Conservation (Ministry of Education), China West Normal University, Nanchong, China

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• Chris Newman,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, The Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Cook’s Lake Farming Forestry and Wildlife Inc (Ecological Consultancy), Queens County, Nova Scotia, Canada

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• Christina D. Buesching,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Cook’s Lake Farming Forestry and Wildlife Inc (Ecological Consultancy), Queens County, Nova Scotia, Canada, Department of Biology, Irving K. Barber School of Arts & Sciences Unit 2, University of British Columbia, Okanagen, Canada

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• David W. Macdonald,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, The Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Zhao-Min Zhou

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zhouzm81@gmail.com

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Southwest China Wildlife Resources Conservation (Ministry of Education), China West Normal University, Nanchong, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4824-7371

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