ETIS Data Aggregates

At its 77th meeting, the CITES Standing Committee requested TRAFFIC to publish the automated aggregated elephant seizures data summaries of the public section of ETIS Online. This ETIS Data Aggregates webpage holds the latest ETIS data summaries for each country or territory that has data available in the ETIS database. Data are updated daily based on validated data included in the ETIS analyses.

Visitors can graph data for each individual country or territory by selecting the appropriate name from the dropdown menu above the summary table. The graph can be further customized by selecting the year range or specific data (Seizure In, Weight In, Seizure Out, and Weight Out) to display. The resulting graph can be downloaded as a jpeg, and the table can be exported to Excel.

It is noted that “In” refers to data for ivory seizure cases reportedly made within the country or territory, whereas “Out” refers to data for ivory seizure cases reportedly made elsewhere in the world but where the country or territory of interest was identified along the trade chain, either as the country or territory of origin, export/re-export, transit or destination¹.

Total weight consists of the actual reported raw ivory weights, reported worked ivory weights adjusted by the raw ivory equivalent (RIE²) conversion factor, and/or estimated weights for raw and worked ivory seizures that reported the number of pieces but had missing weights, based on procedures described in the ETIS reports to CITES and Underwood et al. (2013). Weight estimation models are periodically rerun, hence weight totals may vary slightly between reports.