This repository contains codes and data for Liang et al. Assessing the illegal hunting of native wildlife within China. This includes two analyses. First, the prefecture-level analysis for assessing the relationships between the ecological and socio-economic variables and the illegal hunting convictions (all verdicts, type 1 verdicts, type 2 verdicts, and total number of individual animals taken) of four vertebrate groups (amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals) in China. Second, the trait-based analyses (with phylogenetic logistic regression models) for predicting the probability that a species is known to be illegally hunted using the species' traits for the four vertebrate groups.