Analyses, Reports and Other Resources

TRAFFIC conducts ETIS analyses and produces reports as mandated by CITES Resolution Conf. 10.10 (Rev. CoP20) and as requested by the CITES Secretariat and the Parties. These reports provide the latest information and trends on illegal ivory trade and provide the foundation for identifying Parties to participate in the National Ivory Action Plan (NIAP) process. See the links below for the latest ETIS newsletters, interactive analysis tools and code, and ETIS-related CITES documents to the Conference of the Parties (CoP) and the Standing Committee (SC). Additional resources provide an overview of the ETIS programme and technical descriptions of the ETIS analyses.

• March 2024
• March 2023

• Interactive tool - ETIS network maps of illegal ivory trade
• Analysis code - including modelling developments implementing the ETIS review recommendations
• Data aggregates page - aggregated elephant seizure data summaries on the public section of ETIS Online

• CoP20 Doc.76.5 - Report on the Elephant Trade Information System (ETIS):
  
  • Annex 2 - ETIS report to CoP20
• CoP20 Doc. 43 - ETIS Categorization of Parties
• CoP20 Doc. 42 - Implementation of the priority recommendations from the review of the ETIS Programme

• SC81 Doc. 41 - Implementation of the recommendations from the review of the ETIS programme (Decisions 19.96, 20.94, 20.98 & 20.103):
  • Annex 3 - ETIS standard operating procedures
• SC81 Doc. 56 - Report of the Secretariat on the implementation of Resolution Conf. 10.10 (Rev. CoP20):
  • Annex 1 pp. 24-35 - ETIS report on Illegal Trade in Elephant Specimens
• SC78 Doc. 65.1 - Report on the Implementation of Resolution Conf. 10.10 (Rev. CoP19):
  • Annex 1 pp. 18-25 - ETIS report on Illegal Trade in Elephant Specimens
• SC78 Doc. 65.2 (Rev. 1) - Implementation of the priority recommendations from the review of the ETIS programme:
  • Annex 2 - ETIS data validation
  • Annex 3 - ETIS trend modelling development
  • Annex 4 - Application of network analysis to ETIS data
• SC78 Doc 65.3 - ETIS Categorization of Parties:
  • Annex 1 - Overview of methods for the evaluation of Parties requiring attention under the NIAP process
• SC77 Doc 63.1 (Rev. 2) - Report of the Secretariat on the Implementation of Resolution Conf. 10.10 (Rev. CoP19):
  • Annex 2 pp. 24-43 - ETIS report on Illegal Trade in Elephant Specimens

• Understanding ETIS - An introduction and overview of the Elephant Trade Information System analysis
• ETIS SOP - Standard operating procedures of the ETIS programme (as appear in Annex 3 of SC81 Doc. 41)
• Underwood et al. (2013) - Dissecting the Illegal Ivory Trade: An Analysis of Ivory Seizures Data - PLOS One
• Burn and Underwood (2013) - A new statistical modelling framework to interpret ivory seizures data - Technical Report