TRAFFIC Bulletin Volume 27, No.2 (October 2015)

TRAFFIC Bulletin Volume 27, No.2 (October 2015)

Vol. 27(2) individual articles

News

• editorial
• ivory and terror - fact or myth?
• pangolin seizures data, Indonesia
• Asian songbirds in crisis
• sustainability in the TCM sector, China
• EU-TWIX 10th anniversary
• wildlife training for Ecuador’s military
• the case for CITES Appendix I-listing of Earless Monitor Lizards

Feature

• Assessment of the availability of ivory in the Vietnamese market by Nhuan Van Nguyen and Madelon Willemsen

Seizures and prosecutions

• A selection of seizures and prosecutions that have recently taken place around the world

Short communications

• Indian Star Tortoises: shop sales fall as internet trade increases by Serene C.L. Chng and Jamie Bouhuys
• A case study of the Ploughshare Tortoise and the role zoos can play in conservation by Roopali Raghavan, Sonja Luz, Chris R. Shepherd, Richard Lewis, Paul Gibbons and Eric Goode