by Adam Cruise | Mar 24, 2022 | News
By The Independent For more than five years, Chinese national Yang Feng Glan, aka Ivory Queen, organised, managed, and financed a sprawling wildlife crime racket in Tanzania, buying, collecting, transporting, and selling trophies including elephant tusks. With the...
by Adam Cruise | Mar 14, 2022 | News
By Sifelani Tsiko, The Herald / All Africa There is an urgent need to step up the fight against wildlife crime and human-induced reduction of species, which have wide-ranging economic, environmental and social impacts in the country, Environment, Climate, Tourism and...
by Adam Cruise | Dec 2, 2021 | News
By Nick Webster, UAE Hundreds of arrests have been made in a global operation by Interpol and customs authorities against traffickers in wildlife. Criminal networks have been severely disrupted by the month-long Operation Thunder 2021 spread across 118 countries, with...
by Adam Cruise | Nov 18, 2021 | News
By David Klein, OCCRP The traditional Chinese medicine industry has long been one of the major drivers of poaching and the illegal wildlife trade in Africa, but according to a new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency, its markets are getting closer and...
by Adam Cruise | Oct 20, 2021 | News
By Rachel Nuwer, The New York Times Hundreds of poachers are arrested each year for killing elephants, rhinos, pangolins and other animals in Africa. Yet the problem persists, because there is always a ready supply of desperate men to take the place of those put...
