TRAFFIC Bulletin

TRAFFIC Bulletin is the only journal devoted exclusively to wildlife trade issues. It provides news on the trade in wildlife resources, the latest in related legislation, investigations and seizures, and original reports.

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Vol. 25, No.1 (April 2013) (1.8 MB)

• Eels
• Nigeria's ivory trade
• Caviar

Vol. 24, No.2 (October 2012) (1.9 MB)

• Sea cucumber trade in Hong Kong and China
• Impact of trade on Myanmar's wildlife
• African pangolins in Asia

Vol.24, No.1 (April 2012) (3.3 MB)

• Harvesting Chinese caterpillar fungus and Schissandra plants
• Trade in Sugar Gliders
• Chimpanzees on sale in Guinea-Bissau

Vol.23, No.3 (October 2011) (3.5 MB)

South-East Asia Focus:

• Belum-Temengor forest complex, Malaysia
• Tokay Geckos
• Birds-of-Paradise

Vol.23, No.2 (April 2011) (750 KB)

• Developments in eel conservation
• Sustainable use of medicinal and aromatic plants
• International year of forests

Vol.23, No.1 (December 2010) (1.5 MB)

• Trade in South African Abalone
• The poaching of Malayan Sun Bears
• Report of 15th CITES meeting

Vol.22, No.3 (April 2010) (2.8 MB)

• Application of food balance sheets to assess the scale of the bushmeat trade in Central Africa 
• Dried or fried: amphibians in local and regional food markets in West Africa
• The status of the retail ivory trade in Addis Ababa in 2009

Vol.22, No.2 (June 2009) (2.5 MB)

• Hawksbill Turtle trade in Papua New Guinea
• Ivory in Thailand and Viet Nam

Vol.22, No.1 (November 2008) (1.4 MB)

• Mexico's trade in Echinoderms
• Bird hunting for food in the EU
• Wildlife as pets in the UAE

Vol.21, No.3. (January 2008) (1.2 MB)

• Morocco's trade in Barbary Macaques
• Report of 14th CITES meeting
• "Introduction from the sea"

Vol.21, No.2 (August 2007) (2.3 MB)

• South Africa's Demersal Shark Meat Harvest
• World Without Borders: Wildlife Trade on the Chinese-language Internet
• An Assessment of Wildlife Trade at Mong La Market on the Myanmar-China Border

Vol.21, No.1 (July 2006) (1.6 MB)

• Abalone trade in Hong Kong
• Sustainable use of non-wood forest products
• Indonesia's exports of frogs' legs
• International standard for sustainable collection of medicinal plants

Vol.20, No.3 (December 2005) (3.3 MB)

• Ethiopia's efforts to close illegal ivory markets
• Devil's Claw trade in South Africa
• Europe's seizures of emerald monitors

Vol.20, No.2 (February 2005) (1.7 MB)

• Market trends for American Ginseng
• Results of 13th CITES meeting
• South Africa's abalone fishing industry

Vol.20, No.1 (July 2004) (1.7 MB)

• CITES in Greenland
• Reptile trade in southern Viet Nam
• Ivory carving in Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam
• CITES proposals for CoP13
• EU Enlargement

Vol.19, No.3 (October 2003) (3.3 MB)

• The 12th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES
• Trade in pipehorses Solegnathus spp. for traditional medicine in Hong Kong
• Eco-labelling as a conservation tool for American Ginseng
• Stemming Russia’s Wild Flower Trade

Vol.19, No.2 (November 2002) (10.6 MB)

• Giant clams: Their status and trade in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea
• Eels: Their harvest and trade in Europe and Asia

Vol.19, No.1 (November 2001) (4.4 MB)

• Patagonian Toothfish: Are conservation and trade measures working?
• The status of sturgeon resources in Russia

Vol.18, No.3 (December 2000) (1.5 MB)

• The eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES
• Homalopsine watersnakes: The harvest and trade from Tonle Sap, Cambodia 

Vol.18, No.2 (April 2000) (4.2 MB)

• CITES Appendices ammendment proposals
• Implementing CITES for Himalayan medicinal plants Nardostachys grandiflora and Picrorhiza kurrooa
• The Xining Declaration

Vol.18, No.1 (September 1999) (3.8 MB)

• South Africa's woodcarving industry
• Wildlife trade in Yunnan Province, China, at the border with Viet Nam
• Pilot study of the traditional medicine trade in Nigeria
• Bolivia's trade in Hairy Armadillos 

Vol.17, No.3 (January 1999) (2.2 MB)

• Evolution of exploitation in the Galapagos Islands: Ecuador’s Sea Cucumber trade
• Amazon Tree Boas to Zululand Dwarf Chameleons: The US role in the international live reptile trade
• African Elephant range States dialogue meeting

Vol.17, No.2 (June 1998) Excerpt only

• Examination of the US pitcher-plant trade with a focus on the White-topped Pitcher-plant (228 KB)