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Press Release: Campaigners and Nations Step Up Efforts to Close Ivory Market in Japan

Press Release: Campaigners and Nations Step Up Efforts to Close Ivory Market in Japan

by Adam Cruise | Mar 7, 2022 | Press Releases

CITES Standing Committee 74, Lyon France 7-11 March 2022 The first in-person meeting since 2019 of the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) opens Monday 7 March in Lyon, France.  The loaded agenda for the 74th...

Press Release: U.S. Officials Urged to Deny Elephant Trophy Imports by March 16 Deadline

Press Release: U.S. Officials Urged to Deny Elephant Trophy Imports by March 16 Deadline

by Adam Cruise | Mar 3, 2022 | Press Releases

By Center for Biological Diversity and The Humane Society of the United States/Humane Society International. Elephant Trophy Trade Contributes to Extinction Risk, Raises Legal Concerns WASHINGTON— Conservation and animal welfare groups urged the U.S. Fish and...

Press Release: Incident in W National Park (Benin)

by Adam Cruise | Feb 10, 2022 | Press Releases

By African Parks It is with deep regret that we share that yesterday, in the afternoon of Tuesday February 8, a team of rangers was ambushed in W National Park in Benin, while carrying out a patrol at the northern limit of the Park where it intersects with Burkina...

Press Release: Tanzanian Government prepares to evict thousands of Indigenous Maasai residents to make space for trophy hunting and elite tourism

Press Release: Tanzanian Government prepares to evict thousands of Indigenous Maasai residents to make space for trophy hunting and elite tourism

by Adam Cruise | Feb 4, 2022 | Press Releases

By Forest Peoples Programme “We have nowhere else to go. Losing this land will mean the extinction of our community.” On January 21,  2022 the Tanzanian government began demarcating 1500 sq km of disputed land in Loliondo, resuming previous contentious plans to...

Press Release: Questions and Answers on new EU rules on ivory trade

Press Release: Questions and Answers on new EU rules on ivory trade

by Adam Cruise | Dec 19, 2021 | Press Releases

By European Commission – European Union What are the international and EU rules on ivory trade? International ivory trade is banned under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), with narrowly defined exemptions, for example for items...

Press Release: Importing of hunting trophies banned to protect world’s threatened species

Press Release: Importing of hunting trophies banned to protect world’s threatened species

by Adam Cruise | Dec 10, 2021 | Press Releases

By Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, The Rt Hon Lord Goldsmith, and The Rt Hon George Eustice MP - Gov.UK Government response to the consultation and call for evidence sets out one of the toughest bans in the world on the import of hunting...

Press Release: The Export of 42 Wild-Caught Live Elephants from Namibia May Violate International Law

Press Release: The Export of 42 Wild-Caught Live Elephants from Namibia May Violate International Law

by Adam Cruise | Sep 29, 2021 | Press Releases

Conservation and wildlife law experts call for immediate halt to capture and export of wild elephants from vulnerable desert-adapted population. (Sept. 29, 2021) - Conservationists and wildlife trade experts from non-governmental organisations across the globe are...

Press Release: Statement on trade in live African elephants under Articles III and IV of the Convention

Press Release: Statement on trade in live African elephants under Articles III and IV of the Convention

by Adam Cruise | Sep 18, 2021 | Press Releases

By CITES Secretariat 17 September 2021 - In recent weeks, members of the public and non-governmental organizations have expressed concerns about the possibility that Namibia is planning to export live African elephants. The CITES Secretariat is issuing this...

Press Release: Campaigners and Nations Step Up Efforts to Close Ivory Market in Japan

Press Release: Legal Sales of Ivory in Tokyo Drive Illegal Exports

by Adam Cruise | Mar 27, 2021 | Press Releases

By WildAid and the Japan Tiger and Elephant Fund. Tokyo, Japan – A report released today by WildAid and the Japan Tiger and Elephant Fund (JTEF)­ documents ivory businesses in Tokyo targeting Chinese customers, who knowingly operate with the assumption...

Press Release: Dismay greets Namibia elephant auction

Press Release: Dismay greets Namibia elephant auction

by Adam Cruise | Dec 10, 2020 | Press Releases

By The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) Conservationists are dismayed by Namibia’s decision to auction 170 elephants in a bid to prevent Human-Elephant Conflict (HEC). The announcement has been widely reported after the Ministry of Environment,...

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