Asian immigrants in South Africa, traditional Asian medicine and wildlife trade hotspots OPINION / 16 SEPTEMBER 2017, 1:00PM / SHEREE BEGA Trang Nguyen’s British surgeon was... Continue Reading
Ivory Might be On the Way Out … But Elephant Leather Sales Are on the Rise
By Lauren Kearney February 19, 2016 Each day, 100 elephants are killed for their tusks, and conservationists say that if we don’t... Continue Reading
The Most Highly Trafficked Animal on Earth
Posted on February 21, 2015 by Tisha Wardlow Today is World Pangolin Day. So what’s a Pangolin? Arguably the most endangered and... Continue Reading
Why Does It Matter if a Species Becomes Extinct?
The “butterfly effect”—the idea that a butterfly flapping its wings can set in motion a series of events that result in massive... Continue Reading
‘Poaching bloodbath could wipe out elephants’ by Sheree Bega
Johannesburg – Bob Preller has spent the past 30 years watching Africa’s elephants with wonder. Now, the businessman is witnessing them vanish... Continue Reading
Hanoi customs officers seizes 100 kg of ivory, rhino horns in record haul
Custom officers at a Hanoi airport on Wednesday seized 100 kg of what they believed to be ivory and rhino horns –... Continue Reading
UK pledges £5m to combat gangs poaching African and Asian wildlife to point of extinction By STUART WINTER
Poachers are pushing Africa and Asia’s iconic creatures towards extinction as they target them for riches beyond belief. Rhino horn – hailed... Continue Reading
The Wildlife Justice Commission: International body launches in effort to combat biggest ‘Al Capone’ poachers
CAHAL MILMO Saturday 11 July 2015 The head of a new organisation set up to tackle international wildlife crime syndicates has vowed... Continue Reading
On the Internet, Illegal Trade In Endangered Wildlife Thrives 20 Apr 2015
On eBay and elsewhere on the Internet, illegal wildlife and wildlife parts — from elephant ivory to tiger skins to monkey and... Continue Reading
Together against the illegal wildlife trade Updated: 2015-03-13 09:29 By Achim Steiner (China Daily Africa)
Progress to clamp down on environmental crimes is being made, but the statistics continue to be grim March 3 was World Wildlife... Continue Reading