On July 2, China passed amendments to its Wildlife Protection Law (WPL), effective from 2017. We are extremely concerned that the revised law risks further entrenching the culture of commodification of tigers at a time when the world’s remaining wild tigers desperately need China to work towards ending demand
We have produced an interactive map of the illegal trade in rhino horn, the latest in a series of visualisations of illegal wildlife trade. Poaching is the main threat to the survival of rhinos today, driven by demand for their horns.Poaching has escalated hugely over the past decade
Wednesday’s event on tiger trade in the European Parliament, hosted by Neena Gill MEP, was a great success and a valuable opportunity for MEPs, the European Commission and other stakeholders in the European Union to obtain first-hand information from the NGOs on the ground about the tiger trade
China’s Wildlife Protection Law is undergoing its first major revision in 26 years since it came into force but the draft currently under public consultation states for the first time that wildlife can be used in the manufacture of Chinese traditional medicine, healthcare products and food for profit
The Environmental Investigation Agency and 17 other organisations have today released a collective letter at the 66th meeting of the CITES Standing Committee in Geneva which calls for urgent action to end tiger farming and trade
Our forest and wildlife campaigners will be in Geneva on Monday for the week-long 66th meeting of the Standing Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)