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
The Environmental Investigation Agency and 26 other NGOs urge lawmakers in China to act to reduce demand for wild animal species threatened with extinction
Despite intense international scrutiny since the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic, the Chinese Government’s revision of its key legislation on conservation and trade in wild animals looks set to be a major disappointment and failure of nerve
China's Wildlife Protection Law allows for commercial trade in parts and products of big cats, pangolins, elephants, bears and other threatened wild animal species – and early indications suggest that situation is unlikely to change
Authorities in China are still promoting the use of a COVID-19 treatment containing bile extracted from the gall bladders of caged bears
The Chinese Government has removed pangolin scales as an ingredient from the latest edition of its traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) pharmacopoeia but concerns remain