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Africa: China Is Proving Key to Reducing Wildlife Trafficking
ISS, 19 August 2019
China's proactive stance against illicit wildlife trafficking in Africa in recent years has helped shift trends in this crime. Where cooperation has occurred with certain African… Read more »
China Is Proving Key to Reducing Africa's Wildlife Trafficking
Africa presents enormous potential for China's Belt and Road Initiative. It is a vital source of raw materials for the Chinese manufacturing industry and a market for its imports. The reputational risks posed by poaching by a few Chinese nationals in Africa are enormous for a country keen to maintain and extend its economic dominance in the world, write Duncan E Omondi Gumba and Richard Chelin for ISS.
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Africa: To Trade or Not to Trade? The Ivory Question
ISS, 20 August 2019
Is a world without the illicit wildlife trade possible? One where no species faces imminent extinction at the hands of humans? Perhaps - with new technology, and consensus among… Read more »
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UNEP, 17 August 2019
Excellency Federal Counselor Alain Berset, Chairwoman Carolina Caceres, Chair of CITES Standing Committee Secretary General Ivonne Higuero Ministers, Ambassadors, distinguished… Read more »
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Namibia: Namibia Sticks to Its Guns On Ivory Trade
Namibian, 16 August 2019
NAMIBIA is set to stand by its position to have the multilateral wildlife treaty lift the ban on elephant conservation hunting at a conference in Switzterland this weekend. Read more »
InFocus
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Yang Feng Glan, who is popularly known as the "queen of ivory", and her co-accused were this week sentenced to 15 years in prison for trafficking ivory. The accused faced three ... Read more »
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The Lord's Resistance Army rebel commander, Joseph Kony, is increasingly amassing resources through lucrative deals in ivory from the DR Congo with Arab countries, a defector has ... Read more »
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The rapid decline of elephant numbers across Africa under the onslaught of ivory poachers has led to many anti-poaching campaigns across the world, but conservationists find it ... Read more »
