Antiques trade fails in High Court bid to quash UK’s landmark Ivory Act
Conservationists are celebrating after a small group of antiques traders failed in their bid to overturn the UK Ivory Act
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Follow the money – welcome move to target money laundering in illegal wildlife trade
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) welcomes a decision today to prioritise action to crack down on money laundering linked to the illegal wildlife trade
Antiques trade in High Court bid to quash UK’s landmark Ivory Act
A law designed to protect elephants could be struck off the statute books because of resistance from the antiques trade
CITES’s last chance to save the vaquita
Fate of the world’s most endangered cetacean to be decided in Geneva LONDON: As governments from around the world prepare to meet in Geneva for the 18th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), a new report urges the imposition of trade suspensions against Mexico for its […]
World Health Organisation urged to condemn traditional Chinese medicine utilising wild animal parts
In a controversial decision questioned by wildlife scientists around the globe, the World Health Organisation (WHO) is set to formally recognise Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for the first time at the 72nd World Health Assembly in Geneva
Criminal trade in climate-harming HFC refrigerants flourishes in EU
A key initiative in Europe’s strategy to fight climate change is being undermined by an escalating trade in climate-harming refrigerant gases