Chinese Embassy in Kenya tells its citizens involvement in illegal wildlife...
Nairobi, Kenya, 24th January 2014—China's Embassy in Nairobi last week hosted an event for Chinese businesses and citizens based in Africa to address the growing issue of illegal wildlife trade and...
View ArticleTanzania: Reshuffled cabinet should address poaching urgently
Tanzania, 27th January 2014—Conservation organizations WWF and TRAFFIC are extremely alarmed by the dramatic rise in poaching within Tanzania and call upon the recently reshuffled cabinet members to...
View ArticleUganda to return 2.9 tonnes of impounded ivory to ivory trafficking suspects
Uganda, 27th February 2014—A high court judge in Uganda has ordered 2.9 tonnes of seized African Elephant ivory be returned to a Congolese national for onward export, despite the cargo having entered...
View ArticlePoaching and illegal wildlife trade threaten tourism and development options...
Berlin, Germany, 6th March 2014—Panellists at an event held in Berlin, Germany, during ITB—the world’s largest tourism fair—concurred today that record poaching levels of rhinos and elephants are not...
View ArticleFighting wildlife crime through enhanced law enforcement collaboration in...
Yaoundé, Cameroon, July 2014—Law enforcement officers, officials of ministries in charge of wildlife issues and magistrates from six COMIFAC (Central African Forest Commission) countries: Cameroon,...
View ArticleCongo Basin: TRAFFIC features as CBFP Partner of the Month
August 2014—This August, TRAFFIC is featuring as Partner of the month within the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP). The Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP) was created at the 2002 World Summit on...
View Article197 ivory tusks intercepted in Cameroon
Yaoundé, Cameroon, 18th September 2014—On 1st September, 197 ivory tusks were seized at a local checkpoint 20 km from Yaoundé, Cameroon, following a tip-off.
View ArticleNew report identifies actions needed to curtail illegal ivory and rhino horn...
Washington DC, 22nd September 2014—Illegal rhino horn trade has reached the highest levels since the early 1990s, and illegal trade in ivory increased by nearly 300 percent from 1998 to 2011, according...
View ArticleForest stakeholders meet to examine Madagascar timber
Antananarivo, Madagascar, 26th September 2014—This week, all stakeholders involved in timber extraction and management met in Madagascar to discuss the country’s timber trade resources and industry,...
View ArticleOrganized crime, drugs and poverty are behind South Africa’s abalone poaching...
Pretoria, South Africa, 7 October 2014—A new investigative study reveals a highly lucrative trade in a species of abalone—a sea snail found off the coast of South Africa. Investigators found rampant...
View ArticleSouth Africa confirms 2014 worst on record for rhino poaching
South Africa, 22nd January 2015—Official figures released today by South Africa confirmed that 2014 was the worst on record for rhino poaching. A total of 1,215 rhinos were poached in South Africa in...
View ArticleEU develops response to Africa’s wildlife crisis
Brussels, Belgium, 10th February 2015—the European Union (EU) met this week to develop an holistic strategy and plan its activities in support of wildlife conservation in Africa over the next decade.
View ArticleDRC creates new unit to fight wildlife crime
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, February 2015—Officials from wildlife and law enforcement ministries and agencies, magistrates, the private sector and civil society organizations met earlier...
View ArticleFighting ivory smuggling through capacity building in Central Africa
Limbe, Cameroon, April 2015—Wildlife law enforcement officers and other agencies involved in law enforcement including police, Customs, gendarmerie and magistrates from five Central African Forest...
View ArticleConservation stakeholders hammer out priority actions to fight wildlife crime...
Nairobi, Kenya, 28th April 2015—In a significant effort to scale up Kenya’s fight against wildlife crime, public- and private-sector partners have joined forces to address dangerously high levels of...
View ArticleAfrican leaders agree on co-ordinated response and action against illegal...
Brazzaville, Congo, May 2015—African leaders meeting last week in Brazzaville issued a strong Declaration urging co-ordinated regional and international action against wildlife crime at the end of a...
View ArticleChina joins Ethiopia to address ivory trafficking
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 14th May 2015—TRAFFIC today hosted a workshop in Addis Ababa for Chinese businesses and citizens based in Africa to address the growing issue of illegal ivory trade.
View ArticleLargest ever rhino horn seizure reported in Mozambique
Cambridge, UK, 15th May 2015—Police in Mozambique are reported to have seized a staggering 65 rhinos horns, together with 1.1 tonnes of elephant ivory. One Asian national is said to have been arrested...
View ArticleTheft of rhino horns from police a huge setback to Mozambique’s law...
Mozambique, 1st June 2015—A police spokesman on Wednesday confirmed that 12 rhino horns had been stolen from a strong-room in police provincial headquarters in Matola, Maputo province, and a number of...
View ArticleTanzania begins to face its elephant disaster
Tanzania, June 2015—Tanzanian Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism Lazaro Nyalandu yesterday announced the latest estimates of elephant populations in Tanzania, demonstrating a catastrophic...
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