A win for nature as CITES takes steps to shut down the rosewood racket from West Africa to China
We are delighted to join with our EIA US colleagues to welcome the immediate suspension of international trade in threatened West African rosewood
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Joint NGO statement welcoming the implementation of the UK Ivory Act, in effect from today!
Today (6 June) sees the UK Ivory Act come into force, effectively outlawing all legal ivory trade apart from a few narrow exemptions
Zimbabwe’s Elephant Summit fails to rally continent-wide support for a renewed legal ivory trade
Zimbabwe’s ‘Elephant Summit’ last week failed in its attempt to secure a unified voice to demand a legal international trade in ivory be reopened
EIA podcast – Ban it and keep it banned … the high cost to elephants of legal ivory trade
Zimbabwe has hosted what it called an ‘Elephant Summit’ for itself and several other African nations with the aim of restarting the legal international trade in ivory and selling off their stockpiled elephant tusks
EIA podcast – will a new strategy on environmental crime tame Nigeria’s Wild West?
Nigeria has emerged as a hotspot for wildlife and forest crime – but all that could be about the change
Fresh bid to revive global ivory trade with a ‘one-off’ sale is likely to drive elephant poaching surge
A new attempt by several Southern African nations to reopen the global ivory trade via another ‘one-off’ sale of stockpiled tusks could mean disaster for threatened elephants