South Africa’s ban on captive lion exploitation is long overdue – but don’t forget about the tigers
South Africa’s Government has announced its intention to shut down the country’s controversial captive lion breeding industry
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Banks have a big role to play helping authorities to follow wildlife crime blood money – and seize it
EIA is calling on financial institutions with a footprint in East Asia to step up efforts to identify and act on transactions linked to the illegal wildlife trade
New UN report on illegal wildlife trade is welcome but some findings could mislead
The key conclusions on ivory and rhino trade in a major new UN report on the international wildlife trade are “premature and misleading”
International task force agrees to target money laundering in illegal wildlife trade
Agreement has been reached by the intergovernmental Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to crack down on money laundering linked to the illegal wildlife trade
Anti-corruption tools essential to fight wildlife & forest crime
On a platform with senior UN officials, Campaigns Director Julian Newman said corruption was an intrinsic part of environment crime requiring deployment of a full array of legal instruments designed to tackle corruption and money-laundering against the criminal syndicates pillaging our natural world for profit