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...
By Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime Events in recent months raise important questions about whether the insurgents in northern Mozambique may be positioning themselves to reap greater profits from the many trafficking routes that pass through...
By Don Pinnock - Daily Maverick/Conservation Action Trust Wild animals are back. Kangaroos bounding through the streets of Melbourne, elephant herds passing through Indian villages, jackals in Johannesburg, leopards in Mumbai, wild boar in Bergamo and Verreaux eagles...
By Patricia Awori - Director of Pan-African Wildlife Conservation Network It’s a lazy Thursday afternoon and I can hear the sounds of a storm gathering outside my window. It has been a different season, the spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 was like wildfire...
By Don Pinnock – Daily Maverick Everything a costly high-level panel appointed by the Department of Environmental Affairs is tasked to find out about wildlife is already known… so what’s going on? Millions of rand are being spent by the Minister of Environment,...
By Dr Adam Cruise – University of Stellenbosch The current COVID-19 outbreak is the latest and particularly devastating example of hundreds of viruses jumping from animals to humans. About 75% of emerging infectious diseases in humans are zoonotic, accounting for...