
Time is running out for Vietnam to get its act together and clamp down on environmental crime
Vietnam has fast become a global hub for illegal wildlife trade but the country’s Government has failed to respond in an appropriate manner
Vietnam has fast become a global hub for illegal wildlife trade but the country’s Government has failed to respond in an appropriate manner
Last year we raised the alarm about a new Chinese Government policy which repealed a 25-year ban on use of tiger bone and rhino horn in traditional medicine. A document issued in March 2019 by the Government of Shaanxi Province appears to implement the new policy and makes no reference to the November 2018 claims that a full ban is in effect.
If you live in the UK, we ask you to call on your local MP to join our campaigners at an event in Parliament on 2 April 2019 to explore how the UK can work with China to become big cat conservation champions.
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
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
We and 30 other organisations have today sent a joint letter to the Prime Minister of Vietnam, congratulating enforcement agencies on the landmark arrest of suspected tiger trade kingpin Nguyen Mau Chien. The trial of Mau Chien is due to begin next week