By Benoit Blarel - Global Environment Facility (GEF) Illegal logging, fishing and wildlife trade rob the world of precious natural resources – and ultimately of development benefits and livelihoods. The statistics are grim: an elephant is poached for its tusks...
By MongaBay Released last week by the London-based NGO World Animal Protection to coincide with World Animal Day, the report looks at the “Big 5” and “Little 5” most-in-demand species and how trade in those animals impacts their wellbeing and conservation...
A Report by the IUCN WCEL Ethics Specialist Group The report aims for assisting IUCN to clarify the ethical acceptability of trophy hunting according to current IUCN statutes and policies and consistent with generally accepted methodologies of social and environmental...
BY ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY Contrary to what the governments of Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe have suggested ahead of the 18th Conference of the Parties to CITES, poaching and ivory trafficking continue to pose a very real...
By Masayuki Sakamoto - Japan Tiger and Elephant Fund Executive Summary Japan’s ivory market is one of the largest legal domestic markets open today, at a time when many other nations are closing their markets to protect elephants from the trade in their ivory tusks....
Report by Sone Nkoke Christopher - TRAFFIC Bulletin Vol. 31 No. 1 (2019) African elephants occur in a wide variety of habitats, from tropical swamp forests to deserts (Blanc et al., 2007). According to Thouless et al., (2016), West Africa’s elephant populations are...
By Elephants Without Borders (EWB) Elephants Without Borders Response to Press Release by: Permanent Secretary, Mr. Thato Raphaka Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism 24 February 2019 Today, Mr. Thato Raphaka,...
Eighteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties, Colombo (Sri Lanka), 23 May – 3 June 2019 The Elephant Trade Information System (ETIS), established under Resolution Conf. 10.10 (Rev. CoP17) on Trade in elephant specimens and supervised by the Standing Committee,...
Eighteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties, Colombo (Sri Lanka), 23 May – 3 June 2019 The Conference of Parties agreed in Resolution Conf. 10.10 (Rev. CoP17) on Trade in elephant specimens that the programme known as Monitoring the Illegal Killing of...
The report ‘Trading in Extinction: The Dark Side of Hong Kong’s Wildlife Trade’, consolidates a large body of pre-existing work and reconciles this with a snapshot of Hong Kong’s seizure data. It aims to update and, for the first time, illustrate the extent...