Non-TRAFFIC publications 

A selection of references to papers authored by TRAFFIC staff, but published by organizations other than TRAFFIC.

TOPICS - enforcement

Opportunities to Use Detector Dog Programmes to Detect Wildlife Contraband – Results of an Expert Workshop on Wildlife Detector Dogs by Birgit Felgentreu and Volker Homes. INECE Newsletter, issue 15, summer 2007.

Reference Guide - EC Wildlife Trade Regulations prepared by TRAFFIC Europe. A user-friendly short reference guide available in 22 languages.

TOPICS - forestry

CITES: a growing role in the timber trade. A look at proposals to list new tree species in CITES Appendix II (2007) by Chen Hin Keong. Arborvitae 33:5.

Trade Measures – Tools to promote the Sustainable Use of NWFP? by Markus Burgener, TRAFFIC East/Southern Africa–South Africa, under the supervision of: Sven Walter, FAO, Forest Products Division, Non-Wood Forest Products Programme. (May 2007). 135pp. Report available from: Non-Wood Forest Products Working Document No.6

China's wood market, trade and the environment (PDF, 1.4 MB) by Zhu Chunquan, Rod Taylor and Feng Guoqiang (2004) 63pp Science Press USA Inc.

TOPICS - medicinal

Can we tame wild medicine? - To save a rare species, Western conservationists may have to make their peace with traditional Chinese medicine by Rob Parry-Jones and Amanda Vincent. New Scientist, issue 2115, 03 January 1998.

SPECIES - mammals 

Trophy Hunting of Black Rhino Diceros bicornis: Proposals to Ensure Its Future Sustainability by N. Leader-Williams, S. Milledge, K. Adcock, M. Brooks, A. Conway, M. Knight, S. Mainka, E.B. Martin and T. Teferi. J. Int. Wildlife Law & Policy 8: 1-11 (2005).

The Southern Serow: A little-known mountain goat of Southeast Asia in steep decline by Chris R. Shepherd. The Loggerhead, Dec 07–Jan 08 issue, p6.

Civets in trade in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia (1997–2001) with notes on legal protection by Chris R. Shepherd. Small Carnivore Conservation, 38: 34–36.

Illegal killing of African rhinos and horn trade, 2000–2005: the era of resurgent markets and emerging organized crime by Simon A.H. Milledge. Pachyderm No. 43 July–December 2007.

Establishing the foundation for an applied molecular taxonomy of otters in Southeast Asia (2008) by Klaus-Peter Koepfli, Budsabong Kanchanasaka, Hiroshi Sasaki, Hélène Jacques, Kristina D. Y. Louie, Toanvong Hoai, Nguyen Xuan Dang, Eli Geffen, Arno Gutleb, Sung-yong Han, Thrine M. Heggberget, Lionel LaFontaine, Hang Lee, Roland Melisch, Jordi Ruiz-Olmo, Margarida Santos-Reis, Vadim E. Sidorovich, Michael Stubbe and Robert K. Wayne. Conservation Genetics, January 2008.

Major Steps taken towards Otter Conservation in Indonesia (1994) by R. Melisch, P. B. Asmoro and L. Kusumawardhami. IUCN/SSC Otter Spec. Group Bull., 10:21-24.

The trade in bear parts from Myanmar: an illustration of the ineffectiveness of enforcement of international wildlife trade regulations by Chris R. Shepherd and Vincent Nijman. Biodivers. Conserv. 17: 35-42.

The Distribution and Status of the Eurasian Otter (Lutra lutra) in Asia - A Preliminary Review (1998) by Conroy, J., Melisch, R. & Chanin, P. IUCN Otter Spec. Group Bull. 15(1): 15–30.

Notes on the grizzled leaf monkey (Presbytis comata) from two nature reserves in West Java, Indonesia (1996) by Melisch R. & Dirgayusa I W. A. Asian Primates 6(1–2). pp: 5–11.

First record of hybridisation in otters (Lutrinae: Mammalia), between Smooth-coated otter, Lutrogale perspicillata (Geoffroy, 1826) and Asian small-clawed otter, Aonyx cinerea (Illiger, 1815) (1996) by
Melisch, R. & Foster Turley, P. Der Zoologische Garten, 66(5), 284–288.

Anoa threatened by souvenir trade in south Sulawesi, Indonesia (1995) by Melisch, R. Oryx 29: 224–225.

Early record of fishing cat in Peninsular Malaysia (1995) by Melisch, R. Cat News 22: 19.

Fishing cat in peril in Java (1995) by Melisch, R. Cat News 22: 18.

Distribution and status of the Fishing Cat (Prionailurus viverrinus rhizophoreus Sody, 1936) in West Java, Indonesia (Mammalia:Carnivora:Felidae) (1995) by
Melisch, R., Asmoro, P.B., Lubis, I.R. and Kusumawardhani, L. Faun.Abh.Mus.Tierkd. Dresden 20(17): 311–319.

Recent threats to a wild Banteng (Bos javanicus) population in Cikepuh Wildlife Reserve, West Java, Indonesia (1995) by Melisch, R. IUCN/SSC Veterinary Specialist Group Newsletter 10: 11.

Observation of swimming babirusa Babyrousa babyrussa in Lake Poso, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia (1994) by Melisch, R.  Malayan Nature Journal, 47, 431–432.

Small carnivore conservation assessment and management plan. Final review draft report, 10 May 1994, [Eds]. Wirth, R., Glatston, A., Byers, O., Ellis, S., Foster, Turley P., Robinson, P., Van Rompaey, H., Moore, D., Kumar, A., Melisch, R. & Seal, U. IUCN/SSC Mustelid, Viverrid and Procyonid Specialist Group, IUCN/SSC Otter Specialist Group & IUCN/SSC Captive Breeding Specialist Group. 1–229.

Lifting China's Tiger Trade Ban Would Be a Catastrophe for Conservation (2007) by K. Nowell and Xu Ling. Cat News 46: 28-29

SPECIES - birds

The bird trade in Medan, north Sumatra: an overview by Chris R. Shepherd. BirdingASIA 5 (2006): 16–24.

First description of male Hoogerwerf ’s Pheasant Lophura (inornata) hoogerwerfi (Chasen, 1939), with notes on distribution by Resit Sözer, Chris R. Shepherd & Darjono. Bull. B.O.C. (2006) 126(3): 207–211.

Trade in the Black-and-white Laughingthrush Garrulax bicolor and White-crested Laughingthrush G. leucolophus in Indonesia by Chris R. Shepherd. BirdingASIA 8 (2007): 49–52.

SPECIES - reptiles

Trade in non-native, CITES-listed, wildlife in Asia, as exemplified by the trade in freshwater turtles and tortoises (Chelonidae) in Thailand by Vincent Nijman and Chris R. Shepherd. Contributions to Zoology, 76(3): 207–212.

SPECIES - plants

Progress on the International Standard for Sustainable Wild Collection of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (ISSC-MAP) (2006) by Susanne Honnef, Danna Leaman, Britta Pätzold & Uwe Schippmann. Medicinal Plant Conservation, Vol 12, p. 8-11.

Candelilla (Euphorbia antisyphilitica): Utilisation in Mexico and international trade (2004) by Frank Barsch. Medicinal Plant Conservation, Vol 9/10, p. 46-50.

Revision of the "WHO/IUCN/WWF Guidelines on the Conservation of Medicinal Plants" (2004) by Wolfgang Kathe & Alan Pierce. Medicinal Plant Conservation, Vol 9/10, p. 54-56.

WHO releases Guidelines on Good Agricultural and Collection Practices (GACP) for medicinal plants (2004) by Alan Pierce & Wolfgang Kathe. Medicinal Plant Conservation, Vol 9/10, p. 56.

Sustainable use of medicinal and aromatic plants for financial support of protected areas in southeast Europe (2004) by Wolfgang Kathe & Susanne Honnef. Medicinal Plant Conservation, Vol 9/10, p. 57-62.

Medicinal Plants: BMZ-funded workshop held in Hong Kong (2000) by Samuel Lee. Medicinal Plant Conservation, Vol 7, p. 29.

Workshop on Conservation of Medicinal Plants in Korea (2000) by Samuel Lee & Sue Kang. Medicinal Plant Conservation, Vol 6, p. 30-31.

The Revision of the “WHO/IUCN/WWF Guidelines on the Conservation of Medicinal Plants” (2005) by Wolfgang Kathe. HerbalGram, 66:60-61.

Susanne F. Schmitt and Susanne Honnef (2002). Sustainable use of medicinal and aromatic plants in Europe, page 19-20. In: D. Baricevic, J. Bernáth, L. Maggioni and E. Lipman (comp.) - Report of a Working Group on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants. First Meeting, 12–14 September 2002, Gozd Martuljek, Slovenia. The International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI) and The European Cooperative Programme for Crop Genetic Resources Networks (ECP/GR).

New industry standard for collection of wild plants. Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter 149: 45-46

WHO (2003). WHO guidelines on good agricultural and collection practices (GACP) for medicinal plants. Geneva, WHO, 72 pp. In French.

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