Despite signing up to global initiatives seeking to protect wild tigers, doubling their number by 2022, departments in China have set about stimulating domestic markets for tiger skins and body parts. As few as 3,500 tigers survive in the wild, yet more than 5,000 captive-bred tigers exist in Chinese ‘farms’ and ‘zoos’
A report on the illegal flow of timber from Mozambique to China featuring detailed case studies, specific examples of corruption and the collusion of senior Mozambique politicians with Chinese timber exporters. This is costing the fourth least-developed country in the world tens of millions in lost taxes annually
China the world’s second biggest economy, is effectively standing on the sidelines as its growth devastates forests in a trade worth billions of dollars a year. This report reveals that China is now the single largest international consumer of illegal timber, importing wood stolen by organised criminal syndicates
A briefing prepared for the 2nd Asian Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation, in Bhutan, from 21-24 October 2012. We outline how snow leopards remain seriously endangered across their range, threatened by habitat loss, conflict killing, prey loss and poaching for trade
More than a year after being exposed as major players in the smuggling of timber from Laos, this report reveals the Vietnamese timber industry, the military and well-connected Lao actors are still profiting from the flow of logs into Vietnam
Wildlife crime was officially recognised as a form of serious transnational organised crime by the UN General Assembly in 2000. The need for a sophisticated and coordinated response from enforcement agencies is required to combat it