Convention on Plastic Pollution – Essential Elements: Fishing Gear
Abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear (ALDFG) – also known as ‘ghost gear’ – is a major contributor to marine plastic pollution.
- Ocean:
Reports
Global Plastics Treaty: Initial Considerations for INC-1
In this briefing we provide some key considerations for negotiators going into INC-1 (previous briefing in this series can be found here).
- Ocean:
Two Sides of the Same Coin: Tackling transnational wildlife trafficking between West and Central Africa and South-East Asia
st and Central Africa continues to raise concerns among Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) as a significant hub for global wildlife trafficking.
- Wildlife:
Methane Matters: Towards a global methane agreement
COP27 will take place in Sharm-El-Sheikh from the 6th to the 18th of November, a crucial time to put methane at the center of discussions.
- Climate:
A Decade of National Ivory Action Plans – Where do we go from here? CoP19
It’s called the National Ivory Action Plan (NIAP) and was designed to improve elephants chances of survival from illegal killing. Parties to CITES ( Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) are identified for inclusion in the NIAP if they have worrying levels of poaching and/or illegal ivory trade and […]
- Wildlife:
Investigator magazine: A bold new project helping artificial intelligence learn how to safeguard tigers
Inside, you can read about an exciting project we’ve launched with the Alan Turing Institute to develop a new artificial intelligence tool to identify individual tigers by their stripe patterns, as unique as fingerprints are to humans. We believe this tool will be of invaluable help in identifying tigers and their skins found in illegal trade, as well as revealing possible sources and trafficking systems. You’ll also find news of all the major activities and outputs of our busy campaign teams.