Notes:
1. An earlier version of this study was one of several regional studies of its kind that informed a global report on the status, scope and trends of the legal and illegal international trade in marine turtles, that was requested by governments at the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES (CoP17, Johannesburg, 2016) and presented at its 18th meeting (CoP18, Geneva, 2019). The current version of the study was updated by TRAFFIC on the basis of new seizure data from September 2018 to July 2019.
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