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...
by Adam Cruise | Aug 13, 2020 | News
By Andreas Wilson-Spath, Daily Maverick Between 2012 and 2019, Zimbabwe has exported more than 140 juvenile elephants ranging in age from under two years to seven years, almost all destined for Chinese tourist venues. It’s World Elephant Day, but clearly not in...
by Adam Cruise | Aug 5, 2020 | News
By Tracy Keeling – The Canary Zimbabwe loaded 32 baby elephants onto a China-bound plane in October 2019. It had sold off the young animals, who it had separated from their wild families a year earlier, to an unnatural and torturous life in zoos. Zimbabwe...
by Adam Cruise | Jun 29, 2020 | News
By Opinion / Africa Geographic There is no escaping the fact the mechanisms driving CITES are categorically failing the species that the treaty was enacted to protect. The system has come under fire over recent years from numerous directions, including a...
by Adam Cruise | Jun 3, 2020 | News
By Louise Boyle, The Independent The former head of the global convention on international wildlife trade says that current rules surrounding legitimate enterprise “don’t cut it” to prevent future pandemics and that wildlife crime should be confronted with the same...
