In an indication that China is getting serious about properly prosecuting wildlife criminals, a court in Jiangsu province has jailed a man for 11-and-a-half years and confiscated about £54,900 (500,000 RMB) worth of his private assets for ivory smuggling
Illegal killing for their body parts continues to be a serious threat to the survival of wild tigers and efforts to eliminate this trade continue, in many cases, to be insufficient
In 2010, 29 July was designated Global Tiger Day by the heads of State of all 13 tiger range countries when they signed the St Petersburg Declaration in Russia
Vietnam’s Prime Minister, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, on Thursday pledged to step up his country’s fight against the illegal wildlife trade
Nine members of one of Southern Africa’s most prolific wildlife trafficking gangs were today (20 July) sentenced by a Malawi court to a total of 56.5 years’ prison time
The key conclusions on ivory and rhino trade in a major new UN report on the international wildlife trade are “premature and misleading”