Abstract
Indonesia’s largest reptile export commodity is water monitor lizard, both in the form of skin and living animal. This paper provides an overview of the Indonesian water lizards exported, including the number of exported lizards and destination country within 1 decade. The export data of the lizards in 2005-2014 was obtained from Management Authority CITES Indonesia i.e. Konservasi Sumber Daya Hayati dan Ekosistem (KSDAE) of Indonesia. Supplementary data was obtained from the lizard importer from CITES. The number of exported water monitor lizards is 368.064 specimens, which consist of 1.70% of alive lizards and the remaining is skin of the lizard. The realization export number was lower (15.59%) than the quota export. Most of the lizards (99.82%) were caught in the wild. The export destination country for skin is Singapore and for alive animals is USA. Further the problem of Indonesia’s water lizards trade and efforts to solve it are discussed.
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