After almost two years of silence, the Chinese Government finally released a second revision of its draft Wildlife Protection Law in September for public consultation
Exacerbated by the commercialisation of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in the 1950s, the demand for pangolin meat and scales drove the decline of an estimated 94 per cent of pangolins in China between the 1960s and 2000s
The first phase of the latest conference of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD CoP15) ended with a renewed sense of optimism as 195 countries signed onto the Kunming Declaration with 17 commitments, acknowledging the need to reverse the world’s catastrophic loss of biodiversity
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
China is for the first time due to host a major international biological diversity conference – and EIA is urging it to start tackling environmental crime and exploitation as a priority
Policy recommendations for the Government of China prior to the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Kunming, 11-24 October 2021