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CONTENTS Acknowledgements Glossary of terms and acronyms Executive Summary iii iv v Background 1 Introduction 3 Methods 6 Legal position of trade in elephants and ivory 7 Trade 7 Management 9 Results 10 Live elephant trade 10 Ivory Trade 19 Sources and Prices of raw ivory 19 Ivory workshops in Thailand 24 Retail worked ivory outlets and prices 27 Results of the December 2006/February 2007 survey 29 Bangkok 30 Chiang mai 37 Phayuha Kiri 38 Uthai Thani/Chai Nat 39 Results of the 2008 survey 39 Discussion and Conclusions 42 Compliance with CITES 42 Trade 45 Live elephant trade 45 The ivory trade 46 Sources and Prices of raw ivory 46 Workshops and carvers 47 Retail outlets and prices 47 Buyers 50 Market turnover 50 Ivory substitutes 50 Legality of the worked ivory 50 Recommendations 51 References 58 The elephant and ivory trade in Thailand ii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The staff of the TRAFFIC Southeast Asia office provided essential information and backup support that assisted the project greatly, in particular Chris Shepherd, Azrina Abdullah and James Compton. Tom Milliken contributed to this report with Elephant Trade Information System (ETIS) elephant product trade information and text from relevant CITES documents. Interpreter/assistant Apirada (“Pook”) Komoot worked tirelessly and enthusiastically to help gather information and assist in the location of ivory outlets and workshops and to count the worked ivory. Richard Lair and Belinda Stewart-Cox provided helpful background information on trade in live elephants and ivory poaching in Thailand. The Rufford Maurice Laing Foundation is gratefully acknowledged for its support in the production of this report The elephant and ivory trade in Thailand iii
Page 1 and 2: THE ELEPHANT AND IVORY TRADE IN THA
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Page 7 and 8: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Asian Elephants a
Page 9 and 10: • Thailand illegally imports many
Page 11 and 12: BACKGROUND Asian Elephants Elephas
Page 13 and 14: INTRODUCTION The demand for ivory a
Page 15 and 16: Comprehensive analyses of ETIS reco
Page 17 and 18: The presence and type of ivory subs
Page 19 and 20: This, of course, may not be easy to
Page 21 and 22: Daniel Stiles/TRAFFIC Southeast Asi
Page 23 and 24: Table 1. (continued) Elephant camps
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Page 27 and 28: Table 2. (continued) Live Asian Ele
Page 29 and 30: In all, at least 66 of the 235 (28%
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Page 33 and 34: one craftsman working near Khao San
Page 35 and 36: The visit to Phayuha Kiri to interv
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Page 45 and 46: There was quite remarkable variabil
Page 47 and 48: Chiang Mai A total of 26 outlets se
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Despite the efforts detailed in Tha
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kilogrammes cost from USD286-429/kg
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Table 19 presents a comparison of r
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law, but the proportion cannot be e
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Appendix 1.Thailand and the Elephan
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Table 1: ETIS records for number of
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Dublin, H., Milliken, T. and Barnes
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Stiles, D. (2004a). The ivory trade
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