Previous published reports on Thailand’s ivory
market (Martin and Stiles 2002; Stiles 2004; Stiles
2009) included crucial raw and worked ivory price
data, counts and proportions of the different worked
ivory types, numbers of ivory workshops and
craftsmen, sources of raw ivory, and nationalities of
the principal buyers. None of these scale and trend
indicator variables were collected, which limits the
value of the TRAFFIC report substantially