Despite Government efforts to reverse the tide of illegal wildlife trade, Vietnamese-led criminal networks continue to play a major role in fuelling poaching and the decline of biodiversity in Africa
The Royal United Services Institute and EIA have launched new resources to help enforcement agencies around the world to use financial intelligence to crack down on illegal wildlife trade
China is changing its Forest Law to include a nationwide ban on buying, processing or transporting illegally sourced timber
We are pleased to see that the Chinese authorities have confirmed the capture and repatriation of Ou, one of the key players in a massive ivory smuggling syndicate based in Shuidong, China.
Ahead of next week’s 70th meeting of the Standing Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Russia, we have released a new report evaluating international efforts to curb elephant poaching and illegal ivory trade
An updated interactive map of the global illegal trade in rhino horn depicts seizures and thefts of rhino horn as well as convictions relating to rhino horn trade worldwide from 2006 to September 2017, offering insights into a devastating criminal trade that continues to fuel the large-scale slaughter of rhinos