United States LEMIS wildlife trade data curated by EcoHealth Alliance (Q8866)

Shared here areUnited States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Law Enforcement Management Information System (LEMIS) data on wildlife and wildlife product imports into the United States. This data was obtained via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests by EcoHealth Alliance. Data were curated, cleaned, and made accessiblevia an R package interface:https://github.com/ecohealthalliance/lemis. Additionally, a summaryof a portion of the data can be found in Smith et al. 2017,EcoHealth(https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-017-1211-7). lemis_2000_2014_cleaned.csv: This file represents the compiled, cleaned LEMIS data from 2000-2014. This data is identical to the version 1.1.0 dataset available through the lemisR package. lemis_codes.csv: Full values for all coded values used inthe LEMIS data. Identical to the output from the lemisR package function lemis_codes(). lemis_metadata.csv: Data fields and field descriptions for all variables in the LEMIS data. Identical to the output from the lemisR package function lemis_metadata(). raw_data.zip: This archive contains all of the raw LEMIS data files that areprocessed and cleaned with the code contained in the data-raw subdirectory of the lemisR package repository.