Wildlife trade in Laos : the end of the game

A comprehensive account of the wildlife trade in Laos, this book is the result of two years' work by the authors, with assistance from two local field researchers and input from a wide range of Lao and foreigners (including Vietnamese, Chinese and Thai informants) with first-hand knowledge of the situation. The authors embarked on the work because they recognised that the wildlife trade is likely to remove many of the key species in Laos while conservation efforts are focussing on forest conservation and management. They found that many programme designers and decision-makers were relying on a handful of reports from the period 1990-93, even though the situation has changed dramatically since them. Most of the information in this publication is from the period 1996-2000.