Steven Broad, the executive director of Traffic, the wildlife trade monitoring network, was at the meeting.
"Laos is being targeted by organised crime groups as a transit point," says wildlife trade monitoring network Traffic.
"This is really, really great news," said Chris Shepherd, the Southeast Asia regional director of Traffic, a wildlife trade monitoring group.
Every one of these incidents, documented by Traffic, the wildlife trade monitoring network, took place within the past few months.
Traffic, a wildlife trade monitoring group, has estimated that at least half of the catch landed could be illegal.
"Illegal wildlife trade can be serious, organised and global," said Sabri Zain, director of policy at Traffic, the wildlife trade monitoring network.
Tom Milliken, director of the wildlife trade monitoring network Traffic's east and southern Africa programme, said: "Heavily armed people are moving into protected areas to kill rhino.
A recent report by Traffic, the wildlife trade monitoring program of the World Wildlife Fund, reads like a high-end catalog to satisfy the tastes of America's wealthiest homes.
"Snakeskins are not nearly as complicated to import and export," said Craig Hoover, of Traffic-North America, the trade monitoring arm of the World Wildlife Fund.
The initiative from the United for Wildlife taskforce, which is chaired by Prince William, follows a 2015 report from the wildlife trade monitoring network Traffic.
