A new database suggests say there has been a dramatic under-reporting of the live, illegal trade in great apes.
Around 1,800 orangutans, chimpanzees and gorillas were seized in 23 different countries since 2005, the figures show. Since 90% of the cases were within national borders they didn't appear in major data records, which only contain international seizures. The new database has been published at the Cites meeting here in Johannesburg.