by Adam Cruise | Apr 20, 2024 | News
By EnviroNews Nigeria The EPI Foundation, the secretariat to the 24 African member states of the Elephant Protection Initiative (EPI), has expressed its strong opposition to the reopening of domestic ivory markets, as proposed in the Republic of South Africa’s Draft...
by Adam Cruise | Nov 2, 2022 | CITES CoP19, Reports, Reports
By Japan Tiger and Elephant Fund Executive SummaryAfricaʼ s elephants continue to be poached for their ivory tusks. To combat the poaching crisis, and to support the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)ʼ s 1990 ban on...
by Adam Cruise | Nov 1, 2022 | CITES CoP19, Working documents
This document has been submitted by Benin, Burkina Faso, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Liberia, Niger, Senegal and Togo. Full document: E CoP19 66...
by Adam Cruise | Mar 9, 2022 | Press Releases
The Standing Committee of the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), at its meeting in Lyon, France, today agreed that countries must continue to report on their domestic ivory markets. CITES Decision 18.117,...
by Adam Cruise | Aug 23, 2019 | News
By Miranda Green, The Hill The European Union and Japan will be able to keep their domestic ivory trades open despite a push to end the market globally at this year’s international wildlife trafficking meeting in Geneva. The decision, concluded Wednesday at the 18th...
