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
To mark World Rhino Day 2018, we have published a new interactive map of rhino horn trade data. The map provides a glimpse into the illegal rhino horn trade since 2006, including incidents of seizures and thefts of rhino horn around the world, along with convictions relating to rhino horn trade
Increasingly prolific Vietnamese criminal syndicates are presenting a fast-growing threat to already besieged populations of elephants and other endangered wildlife. Our new report Exposing the Hydra: The growing role of Vietnamese syndicates in ivory trafficking documents the findings of a two-year investigation
In the past decade, more than a million pangolins have been taken from the wild in Asia and Africa, and another 10 years of such poaching might see this unique creature driven to extinction
This week, we have been taking part in the 70th meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) Animals Committee in Geneva, calling on the global community to end international trade in lion parts and products and presenting information to show how this trade endangers all big cats
There have been significant shipments of lion parts in the past 10 years to South-East Asia and China where they are marketed as tiger, further exacerbating demand for the world’s most endangered big cats.