Methods section: ‘Initial surveys focused on 119 shops
from ten general locations around Bangkok identified
in previous work…’ In fact, in the first survey period
(January 2013) only 71 of these 119 shops could be
found. The table shows that 61 ivory outlets were
found in total, but they were a combination of outlets
on record as having ivory from previous surveys
made between 2004 and 2008 (the 71 in black in the
table), and new outlets found during the January 2013
survey (i.e., the 61 in red in the table includes both).
It cannot be ascertained from the report how many of
the 119 were ever found, because new outlets found in
previous surveys were added to the ‘Outlets with ivory’
category in each subsequent survey, if I understood
TRAFFIC’s explanation correctly