Our latest Wildlife report, A Pivotal Player – Vietnam’s ongoing fight against the illegal wildlife trade, provides an updated look at elephant ivory, pangolin scale and rhino horn trafficking implicating Vietnam between 2022-24. In this special follow-up blog – based on the work of our Investigation & Intelligence team’s painstaking tracking of individuals and analysing […]
The 78th World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) has adopted the global traditional medicine strategy 2025-34 which sets out guiding principles, strategic objectives, directives and actions for WHO, its member states and other stakeholders to support the development of traditional, complementary and integrative medicine (TCIM). While TCIM plays an important role in […]
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