
Top three import and export countries/territories for each wildlife trade category from 1997 to 2016 by total US$ trade value.
Led by PhD student Astrid Andersson, the research team from the HKU Conservation Forensics Lab and Research Division for Ecology and Biodiversity found that a sizeable percentage of the wildlife trade is declared under “vague, all-encompassing codes with broad descriptions.”
Research paper:
“CITES and beyond: illuminating 20 years of global, legal wildlife trade”
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989421000056
News links:
https://www.scifac.hku.hk/press/release/Legal-trade-conservation-forensics-labs