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M.S.F. was supported by a research fellowship from the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford. A.H. was supported by the Oxford Martin Programme on the Illegal Wildlife Trade.
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Farhadinia, M.S., Maheshwari, A., Nawaz, M.A. et al. Belt and Road Initiative may create new supplies for illegal wildlife trade in large carnivores. Nat Ecol Evol 3, 1267–1268 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0963-6
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