by Adam Cruise | Jan 28, 2019 | Reports
The report ‘Trading in Extinction: The Dark Side of Hong Kong’s Wildlife Trade’, consolidates a large body of pre-existing work and reconciles this with a snapshot of Hong Kong’s seizure data. It aims to update and, for the first time, illustrate the extent...
by Adam Cruise | Jan 28, 2019 | News
By Vikram Dodd, The Guardian Row upon row of primate skulls sit in a glass case, jaws stuck forever in a grimace. Rhino horns big and small rise from a table, a depiction of Jesus on the cross in ivory lies on a table, as does a polar bear skin; in the corner a rack...
by Adam Cruise | Jan 27, 2019 | Documents
Eighteenth meeting of the CITES Conference of the Parties, Colombo (Sri Lanka), 23 May – 3 June 2019. Zambia proposes that the population of African elephant (Loxodonta africana) of Zambia be downlisted from Appendix I to Appendix II subject to: Trade in registered...
by Adam Cruise | Jan 27, 2019 | Documents
Eighteenth meeting of the CITES Conference of the Parties, Colombo (Sri Lanka), 23 May – 3 June 2019. The inclusion of all populations of Loxodonta africana (African elephant) in Appendix I through the transfer from Appendix II to Appendix I of the populations of...
by Adam Cruise | Jan 25, 2019 | News
By Dave Lawrence A year after China imposed a ban on the commercial sale of elephant ivory, surveys indicate Chinese citizens are simply traveling to neighboring countries to buy ivory, and now the Chinese government is working with wildlife nonprofits to launch...
