It cannot be ignored that the use of threatend wildlife for TCM, legal or illegal, has been a significant driver of the poaching and killing of vulnerable species such as tigers, leopards, pangolins, rhinos, bears, saiga and many more over the past decades
Corruption is a critical enabling factor behind the illegal wildlife trade and forest crime – it not only facilitates environmental crime, but is also a major impediment to law enforcement and criminal justice
Malawi’s justice system has scored a major victory in its fight again illegal wildlife trade with the conviction of three key members of the notorious Lin-Zhang wildlife trafficking network.
There remains a tough uphill battle to secure a future for pangolins, although there is already a strong foundation built on the backs of other conservation successes
The latest data on rhino populations, poaching and rhino horn trafficking are in and, while there are some bright spots of good news, the dramatic reduction in white rhino numbers puts Africa’s rhino poaching crisis in stark perspective
New research by EIA has shown that the volume of trade of some of the most widely trafficked wildlife commodities – raw ivory, pangolin scales, rhino horn and tigers – is now resurging after being temporarily suppressed by the coronavirus pandemic