The 78th World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) has adopted the global traditional medicine strategy 2025-34 which sets out guiding principles, strategic objectives, directives and actions for WHO, its member states and other stakeholders to support the development of traditional, complementary and integrative medicine (TCIM). While TCIM plays an important role in […]
The Government of China has made a commitment (Chinese) to supporting the development of substitutes for endangered wildlife used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). The announcement by the National Medical Products Administration of China (NMPA) is an encouraging step towards ending the use of threatened wildlife in TCM and represents tangible progress following a proposal […]
It cannot be ignored that the use of threatend wildlife for TCM, legal or illegal, has been a significant driver of the poaching and killing of vulnerable species such as tigers, leopards, pangolins, rhinos, bears, saiga and many more over the past decades
New covert footage shows the huge expansion of captive-breeding facilities in Laos for tigers and bears
The London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) today released new covert footage showing the huge expansion of captive-breeding facilities in Laos for tigers and bears
Norges Bank has excluded four major traditional Chinese medicine firms from the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global for posing an “unacceptable risk” of contributing to severe environmental damage