By Laure Fillon, Phys.Org Amid growing calls for an outright ban, the European Union is coming under increasing pressure to help protect African elephants by ending the trade of ivory within its borders. Poaching has decimated the world elephant population, which...
By Rachel Nuwer, The New York Times Poaching destabilizes nations, disrupts ecosystems and threatens biodiversity. A recent study suggests still another consequence: Some types of poaching may also accelerate climate change. Forest elephants — the smaller, endangered...
By Dina Fine Maron, National Geographic One of the most surprising proposals under discussion at the giant global wildlife trade treaty meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, is about woolly mammoths—creatures that once wandered huge tracts of North America, Europe, and...
By Mainichi GENEVA (KYODO): An increasing number of elephant ivory products illegally trafficked from Japan have been seized in China, following Beijing's closure of the domestic market in 2017, recent research by a U.S. conservation group showed. At least 23...
By DUNCAN E OMONDI GUMBA - Institute for Security Services Is a world without the illicit wildlife trade possible? One where no species faces imminent extinction at the hands of humans? Perhaps – with new technology, and consensus among origin and destination...
By Agence France-Presse GENEVA: Dozens of European parliamentarians and conservation groups called on Sunday on the regulator of global wildlife trade to ban all trophy hunting of rhinos, elephants and other endangered animals. The Convention on International...
By Pauline Bax - Bloomberg Preliminary vote at CITES meeting changes elephant trade rules Zimbabwe shipped dozens of elephants to China in recent years A young elephant in Chobe National Park, Botswana. Photographer: Chris Jek/AFP via Getty Images Zoos and...
By Dina Fine Maron & Rachel Fobar, National Geographic Every three years, there’s a global meeting to talk about the international wildlife trade—worth billions of dollars annually. At issue is an overarching question: How to balance this international...
By Chicago News South Africa, DRC, Namibia and Zimbabwe believe they should be able to sell threatened wildlife species on global markets, just like mass-produced trinkets. The South African government, together with those of the DRC, Namibia and Zimbabwe, is...
By AFP Geneva (AFP) - The regulator of global wildlife trade will likely ban sending African elephants captured from the wild to zoos after countries supported the move Sunday, in what conservationists hailed as a "historic win". A large majority of countries voted in...