By Maria Ivanova Associate Professor of Global Governance and Director, Center for Governance and Sustainability, John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston and Candace Famiglietti Doctoral Student, Global...
By Dr Adam Cruise – University of Stellenbosch At the 18th Conference of the Parties (CoP18) of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), held in Geneva in August last year, South Africa vociferously advocated the...
By Fiona Gordon - Environmental Policy Analyst & Ambassador to the Jane Goodall Institute New Zealand The pandemic which has sent countries into lock down and wiped billions from economies has refocused attention on the illicit trade of wild animals. From...
By Linus Hiscox, studying MSc Global Biodiversity Health and Conservation at University of Bristol and DSWF Programmes and Policy Intern In 1979 the world’s elephant population totalled 1.3 million individuals across Africa and Asia; fast-forward to 2016 and...
By Ian Michler – Sustainability Institute, Stellenbosch University Where neoliberalism subjugates the natural world and people to the commercial whims of markets and globalisation, sustainable use has ensured the international commercialisation of biodiversity, and...
By Timothy Kuiper - PhD Researcher: Wildlife Conservation Science, University of Oxford and Eleanor Jane Milner-Gulland - Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity, University of Oxford The illegal wildlife trade is one of the highest value illicit trade sectors...
By Andreas Wilson-Spath - Daily Maverick/Conservation Action Trust Chimpanzees, Bengal tigers, wolves, wild dogs and lions are among thousands of endangered wild animals exported, sometimes in contravention of CITES regulations, often in shameful conditions. At a time...
By Nita Bhalla, Journalist, Thomson Reuters Foundation Harry Jacques, WeForum As coronavirus halts nature-based tourism worldwide, employees and their communities are struggling to stay afloat.There are fears they could even become prey to criminal networks. For more...
By John Scanlon AO, for The Independent Several hundred miles north of a dwindling Ebola outbreak, rangers at Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are most concerned with how the COVID-19 pandemic will continue to play out around the world....
By Dr Mark Jones - Head of Policy at Born Free Foundation By anyone’s estimation Covid-19 is a global catastrophe on an almost unprecedented scale that has emerged, in all likelihood, because of the trade in live wild animals at a market in Wuhan, China. It’s about a...