Illegal trade pressure on pangolins pushes three species further up the risk register
Three species of pangolins have moved into a higher category of threat due to the growing impacts of habitat loss, poaching and illegal trade
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Investors must turn their backs on traditional ‘medicines’ using threatened species
Thousands of leopards have been killed to feed China’s unethical trade in the endangered big cat’s bones but international investors are in a position to do something about it
China’s global push for traditional medicine must come with conditions for threatened wildlife
Chinese Government policy continues to legitimise the use of body parts of wildlife species threatened by trade in traditional Chinese medicine
Snow leopards: ‘Ghost of the mountain’ under pressure from the spectre of illegal trade
Today is International Snow Leopard Day, a celebration of the beautiful and elusive big cat known as the ‘ghost of the mountain’. It is also a chance to renew focus on the price that illegal wildlife trade is exacting from this magnificent creature. The Snow Leopard Trust estimates there are somewhere between 3,290 and 6,390 […]
With extinction looming, it’s CITES’s last chance to save the vaquita porpoise
Governments from around the world meet in Geneva this week for one of the most important dates in the conservation calendar – and perhaps the last chance to save the world’s most threatened marine mammal
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WHO urged to condemn traditional Chinese medicine utilising wild animal parts
In a controversial decision questioned by wildlife scientists around the globe, the World Health Organisation (WHO) is set to formally recognise traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for the first time