China joins Namibia and Zimbabwe in efforts to curb illegal wildlife trade
Windhoek, Namibia, and Harare, Zimbabwe, 12th June 2017—Ministerial level workshops raising awareness against wildlife trafficking amongst Chinese nationals living and working in Namibia and Zimbabwe...
View ArticleGabonese authorities expand the AFRICA-TWIX network
Libreville, Gabon, 7-8th June–a national workshop promoting the use of the AFRICA-TWIX1[1] platform in the fight against wildlife crime and illicit trafficking of wildlife products was held at the...
View ArticleViet Nam provides rhino horn samples to South Africa for DNA testing
Hanoi, Viet Nam, 12th July 2017—Following a record number of rhino horn seizures in Viet Nam in the first half of 2017, national authorities have provided samples for further intelligence gathering...
View ArticleNew FairWild certification project brings sustainable and ethical baobab to...
Zimbabwe, August 2017—One of FairWild’s newest certification scheme entrants, B’Ayoba, is a natural ingredients company that supplies Baobab Adansonia digitata products, ethically and sustainably wild...
View ArticleWayne Lotter, conservation champion, killed in Dar es Salaam
It is with immense sadness that TRAFFIC has learned of the killing in Dar es Salaam of Wayne Lotter, the founding co-Director of PAMS Foundation Tanzania. TRAFFIC staff in Africa and beyond came to...
View ArticleKinshasa’s ivory market still flourishing, finds TRAFFIC study
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), 30th August 2017–a new TRAFFIC report launched today finds Kinshasa’s notorious ivory markets going underground following increased enforcement activity.
View ArticleNew TRAFFIC Study Lifts Lid on Central Africa Ivory Markets
En français Yaoundé, Cameroon, 7th September 2017—Weak governance, corruption and shifting trade dynamics are significant factors seriously undermining the control of ivory trafficking throughout five...
View ArticleOrganized criminal gangs behind rhino horn processing in South Africa—new study
Pretoria, South Africa, 18th September 2017—A TRAFFIC report released today reveals disturbing new evidence that some criminal networks of Chinese origin operating in South Africa are now processing...
View ArticleNew analyses reveal elephant poaching and global ivory trafficking continue...
Geneva, Switzerland, 25th October 2017—new analyses find the elephant poaching situation in Africa and levels of global ivory trafficking remain as critical threats to the survival of Africa’s iconic...
View ArticleWild lions under threat from murky pan-African trade, warns survey
Pretoria, South Africa, 2nd October 2017—A new survey examining the pan-African trade in Lion parts has highlighted “escalating and worrisome trends” that could increasingly pose a threat to wild lion...
View ArticleTRAFFIC publishes studies on Cameroon timber trade governance ahead of ITTO...
Yaoundé, Cameroon, 24th November 2017—TRAFFIC has launched a series of new studies in Cameroon with a view to the improvement of governance of timber harvest and trade. The studies have been launched...
View ArticleWildlife Poaching and Trafficking Prevalent Across Central Africa’s...
Foreign armed groups, including the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), the Janjaweed (a Sudanese militia), and other non-State militias, are the main perpetrators of wildlife poaching and trafficking across...
View ArticleAfrica-EU summit ends with declaration to address wildlife trafficking and...
Nairobi, Kenya, and Cambridge, UK—Representatives from African Union (AU) and European Union (EU) nations meeting last week in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, have ended their summit with a commitment to...
View ArticleIn the wake of world’s largest ever pangolin scale seizure, new analysis...
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 15th December 2017—An average of 20 tonnes of pangolins and their parts have been trafficked internationally every year with smugglers using 27 new global trade routes annually,...
View ArticleSouth Africa: rhino poaching in 2017 almost matches 2016 figure, with KwaZulu...
Johannesburg, South Africa, 25th January 2018—South Africa today announced the official number of rhinos illegally killed in the country during 2017 as 1028 animals: a tiny decrease on last year’s 1054.
View ArticleTRAFFIC mourns Esmond Bradley Martin: a leader in global conservation
Cambridge, UK, 5 February 2018—TRAFFIC was shocked to learn of the death yesterday of Esmond Bradley Martin, one of the world’s leading investigators into the global illegal ivory and rhino horn trade....
View ArticlePoached Abalone from South Africa is Flowing into Hong Kong Markets
Hong Kong, 9 February 2018—A new TRAFFIC report reveals a thriving trade in poached South African abalone Haliotis midae in Hong Kong, where the marine mollusc is considered a delicacy in Cantonese...
View ArticleMobile 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...
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