ABSTRACT
The material analyzed from Norway shows there are different categories of consumers of wildlife. The consumers of wildlife represented in these data, as revealed in the seizure reports and that most frequently have wildlife products seized by Customs fall into six, not mutually exclusive, categories:
People who travel and who bring, or arrange to have sent to them, wildlife products back home, often so-called “souvenirs”.
This can be in the form of inter alia shoes, belts, purses, wallets and clothing made from reptile skins, dead reptiles, stuffed crocodile/alligator heads, pelts, skins, shawls, seahorses, ivory figures and jewellery, turtle shell jewellery, corals, caviar and liquor made with endangered reptiles. People who travel also bring, or arrange to have sent to them, TAM products, such as s seahorse pills, leopard pills, saga antelope pills and musk in different forms.