Born Free complete gargantuan 8,000 mile leopard rescue and relocation
Friday 3 May marked International Leopard Day. So coinciding with this day of celebration and awareness for the iconic spotted ...
Tag: wildlife trade
Mexico sanctioned over failure to protect world’s most endangered marine mammal
The international wildlife trade body sanctioned Mexico on 27 March. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild ...
As CITES turns 50, a report on the ‘extinction business’ shows urgent need for change
It's World Wildlife Day on 3 March. This year, the event coincides with the 50th anniversary of the global wildlife ...
EU under pressure to act over extinction risk from its massive frogs’ legs trade
Europeans' appetite for frogs' legs is driving an unsustainable and risky trade in amphibians, according to a recent paper. The ...
Wildlife trade body needs to step up protection of endangered primate
The global wildlife trade body must reevaluate the protections it provides to long-tailed macaques, according to wildlife- and primate-focused nonprofits. ...
EU moves get praise from telling factions at wildlife conference
The European Union has come under fire from wildlife charities, among others, for some of its actions at the World ...
Wildlife conference decisions give two songbirds a fighting chance to keep singing
Two species of songbird secured new trade-related protections at the World Wildlife Conference on 21 November. Thanks to the decisions, ...
Vast illegal trade in turtle species is happening, despite global protections
The trade in Southeast Asian box turtles from Indonesia is happening at a scale much higher than annual quotas allow, ...
Wildlife trade is snuffing out species at a shocking rate, expert warns
Alligators wrapped in plastic and stuffed into suitcases. Songbirds trapped in glue and then wedged into bamboo tubes. These are just ...
UN moves towards crackdown on illegal wildlife trade in historic resolution
The UN has moved closer towards meaningfully tackling the illegal wildlife trade. The UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice ...
African groups lead charge against Zimbabwe’s push to revive ivory trade
Zimbabwe will host an Elephant Summit between 23 and 26 May, after recently courting European politicians to elicit their support ...
Trophy hunting incentivises killing of endangered animals, warns Zambian environmentalist
Germany has become the latest European country to announce a potential ban on the import of hunting trophies. The move ...
Friend or foe: recent discoveries boost case against trade in elephants
A lonely elephant is a stressed elephant. And a traumatised young elephant lives with impacts of that trauma for decades. That's ...
Wildlife trade body branded ‘toothless paper tiger’ amid ongoing elephant-related scandals
Elephants are going to be the talk of France in the coming days. The international wildlife trading body has a ...
Namibia’s case for its controversial elephant sale grows weaker by the day
The Namibian government's case for a controversial sale of wild elephants to destinations abroad is weakening by the day. Following ...
UN told to get serious about wildlife trade risks in its plan for saving biodiversity
The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is engaged in a critical meeting between 23 August and 3 September. During ...
Tadpoles among the first in line to test the UK’s G7 biodiversity promise
Tadpoles have emerged as unlikely pioneers who are putting the UK government's G7 promise on biodiversity to the test. At ...
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