The Netherlands said on Monday it will ban all raw ivory sales from next year, as it unveiled the results of a major operation to combat trafficking in endangered animals and plants. Currently Dutch law permits the sale of raw ivory such as elephant tusks with an EU...
Alan Boyle, Geekwire One of the legacies left behind by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, the Microsoft co-founder who passed away last October, is a drone development program aimed at providing aerial intelligence for Africa’s anti-poaching efforts.The program takes a...
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 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...
By Claire Baker-Munton The discovery of trinkets carved from the tusks of extinct woolly mammoths earlier this year is just the latest evidence that Cambodia is playing a growing role in the international illegal ivory trade In the first days of 2019, researchers at...
Xinhua Many positive results have been obtained since China implemented a total ban on ivory processing and sales in its domestic market in January last year, according to scholars and relevant institutions. A new public campaign has been launched nationwide by...
By Mpho Tebele - Southern Times - Jan 22, 2019 In a dramatic turn of events, Botswana has joined forces with Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe to compel the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and...
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...