Tag: ivory

Today, we and our nine campaign partners are delighted to see the UK Government’s Ivory Bill receive Royal Assent to become law.

Police chiefs from around the world are to sharpen their focus on transnational environmental crime and cooperate more widely to combat it.

The Government of China has revealed it allows commercial trade in tiger bone and rhino horn from farmed animals for use in traditional Chinese medicine research and clinical treatments, a brazen and regressive move which drastically undermines international efforts for tiger and rhino conservation

At the fourth Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference in London, we were disappointed by the absence of a stronger call for the closure of legal domestic markets for parts and products of elephants, big cats, pangolins and other species threatened by trade

These meetings assess the progress made by countries on key issues of wildlife and timber trade, as set out in CITES. We persistently advocate robust measures for the protection of wild fauna and flora. This 70th meeting was a busy one with a lot to digest, here’s a summary of the key issues with which we engaged

The fourth international Conference on Illegal Wildlife Trade in London seeks to strengthen international partnerships across borders and beyond governments, with a focus on tackling illegal wildlife trade as a serious organised crime, building coalitions and closing markets