Mobile trailers a significant boost in efforts to investigate remote wildlife...
Pretoria, South Africa, 20th February 2018—Representatives from South Africa’s Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) based in Northern Cape, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu Natal today received mobile...
View ArticleLAM To Help Curb Wildlife Trafficking in Mozambique
LAM and the USAID ROUTES Partnership trains transport airline staff on how to detect wildlife trafficking at Maputo Airport Maputo, Mozambique, 27th February 2018 — Today, the USAID Reducing...
View ArticleROUTES Partnership and Kenya Airways train transport staff to help curb...
Nairobi, Kenya, March 1, 2018—To help detect and stop smugglers carrying ivory, rhino horn, and other wildlife products out of Kenya, the USAID Reducing Opportunities for Unlawful Transport of...
View ArticleGround-breaking study highlights scale of Africa-Asia wildlife trade
Pretoria, South Africa, 5th March 2018—More than 1.3-million live animals and plants, 1.5-million skins and two thousand tonnes of meat from CITES-listed species have been exported from 41 African...
View ArticleOutcomes of Cameroon–China timber trade project evaluated
Yaoundé, Cameroon, March 2018—More than 30 participants met last week to evaluate the outcomes of a project aimed at reducing the illegal timber in supply chains between Cameroon and China, the world’s...
View ArticleWildlife forensics: a new weapon for Southern African countries to help bring...
Cambridge, UK, 16th March 2018—wildlife officials in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe are set to receive specialist training for carrying out wildlife forensic investigations thanks to generous support from...
View ArticleNew Report Helps Uganda Take Aim at Wildlife Trafficking
Kampala, Uganda, 11 April 2018—A new TRAFFIC report identifies Uganda as one of the common transit points for the trafficking of wildlife and wildlife products in the Central and East Africa region....
View ArticleChina joins Tanzania and Malawi in efforts to curb illegal wildlife trade
Lilongwe, Malawi and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 7th June 2018—Two advocacy workshops raising awareness on wildlife trafficking amongst Chinese nationals living and working in Malawi and Tanzania were...
View ArticleUganda hosts 6th annual forum on illegal timber trade
Kampala, Uganda, 21st June 2018—This week, Uganda played host to the 6th Annual East Africa Timber Trade Stakeholders’ Forum jointly hosted by WWF Uganda and Uganda’s Forestry Sector Support Department...
View ArticleChinese communities in Mozambique and Zambia engaged on CITES and sustainable...
Maputo, Mozambique/Lusaka, Zambia, July 2018—Two workshops to raise awareness of illegal wildlife trade and its links to wildlife conservation were held last month to engage the Chinese business...
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