One world, One Health – rethinking our relationship with wildlife in the time of a pandemic
We need to think of wildlife protection as part of ensuring our own wellbeing. The health of humans, animals and the environment are intertwined
Tag: leopards
Wildlife Week: We know there’s a way to save tigers – now we need the political will
A look at what progress has been made since the 2010 International Tiger Forum in St Petersburg set out to double the wild tiger population by 2022, the next Year of the Tiger
The good, the bad and the endangered – wildlife wins and losses at CITES Standing Committee
A packed agenda saw a wide range of issues raised, from tiger farms and domestic ivory markets to management of seized timber stocks and guidance for demand reduction programmes. We were busy preparing and making interventions coordinating with other NGOs in preventing over-exploitation of wildlife worldwide
CITES CoP17 opens next week … but what is CITES?
Next week marks the opening of the 17th Conference of the Parties (CoP17), a regular meeting of the members of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, more commonly known as CITES. We give an overview of CITES, CoP17 and the listing of vulnerable species on CITES Appendices.
CITES Parties must keep the ‘forgotten’ big cats in mind
At the forthcoming Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) we will call on world governments to tackle the widespread poaching of leopards driven by the illicit trade in body parts. Besides adopting the draft Decisions on the table, we urge Parties to close domestic markets for big cat parts.
‘Sin City’ wildlife raids a start but what about the long-term?
Vientiane Times has reported that four restaurants at Laos’ Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone (GT SEZ) had been shut down and illegal wildlife products confiscated and burnt, following the release of EIA’s Sin City report