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A powerful new alliance is putting the fight against illegal rhino horn use into the hands of Viet Nam’s future journalists ...
Authorities are ramping up their response to the incessant smuggling of wildlife in passenger luggage between Southeast Asia ...
In Tanzania, old traditions of hunting wild animals for food are changing as communities understand more about the risks of poaching and consuming illegal wild ...
Across Southern Africa, some of the world’s rarest plants are disappearing from the wild, trafficked to feed a global houseplant craze. TRAFFIC's latest research exposes the scale of this illegal ...
These are just some of the shocking revelations contained in a new report, Empty Shells: An assessment of abalone poaching and trade from southern Africa, published today by TRAFFIC, the international ...
Within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and growing attention to zoonotic disease emergence, health experts and thought-leaders continue to examine how the interactions between humans, wildlife ...
Overall, whole tigers, dead and live, as well as a variety of tiger parts equal to a conservative estimate of 3,377 tigers were confiscated between January 2000 and June 2022 across 50 countries and ...
TRAFFIC, together with its key partner UNODC canvassed the globe for cases, with valuable contributions from leading financial crime partners, to identify examples where financial investigation was ...
Telling species apart is a challenge for enforcement officers, especially those whose primary task isn’t solely focused on detecting smuggled wildlife or those who have not been trained in this skill, ...
Bear bile products were found on sale in Traditional Medicine outlets in all but one of the 13 countries/territories surveyed says the report entitled Pills, Powders, Vials & Flakes: The bear bile ...
Interpol have confirmed the seizure of nearly 20,000 live animals – all endangered or protected species – in an operation that involved intelligence gathering across 138 countries. Operation Thunder ...
A summary of the findings from the interviews is published today in The People Beyond the Poaching: Interviews with convicted offenders in South Africa. Almost three-quarters of offenders had been ...