By Don Pinnock - 22 January 2019 - Daily Maverick We need to talk about the future of zoos. There are about 1,500 formal and many more informal ones in the world, holding between three and four million undomesticated, non-human creatures displayed for our...
By Dr Lynn Johnson Daily Maverick CITES, the United Nations organisation which regulates wildlife trade, meets in Sri Lanka in May for its 18thsession. First on its agenda should be its chronic inability to conserve the world’s natural resources. It’s a discussion the...
Lucy Campbell - The Guardian The long-extinct woolly mammoth could gain protected status in an unprecedented attempt to save the African elephant from the global ivory trade. If approved, the protection of the mammoth under the Convention on International Trade in...
Conservationists alarmed as Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe seek permission to sell off stockpiles
by Mongabay.com Over two surveys conducted between November 2016 and June 2017, TRAFFIC’s researchers found more than 10,000 ivory items being offered on sale across 852 physical outlets and 17 online platforms, suggesting an ivory market that has...