CAPE TOWN, South Africa, May 19, 2025 (ENS) – A new investigative report has laid bare the scale and complexity of wildlife trafficking across southern Africa, exposing a tangled web of corruption, organized crime and systemic failures that are eroding conservation efforts and fueling illicit markets. […]
LYON, France, March 9, 2025 (ENS) – Some
20,000 live animals, all endangered or protected species, have been seized during Operation Thunder, the biggest global crackdown against wildlife and forestry trafficking networks in history, jointly coordinated by Interpol and the World Customs Organization. […]
LYON, France, December 7, 2022 (ENS) – A wildlife and timber trading law enforcement crackdown by the international police force Interpol and the World Customs Organization has yielded more than 900 arrests and the disruption of wildlife and timber crime networks globally. Police and Customs officials have made have 2,200 seizures and identified 141 companies they suspect of engaging in illegal sales. […]
LYON, France, March 6, 2022 (ENS) – Africa’s elephants top a packed agenda for the CITES Standing Committee meeting opening Monday that covers protection for 30+ species of plants and animals. Delegates will consider the live trade in elephants, management of ivory stockpiles, and the closure of domestic ivory markets. […]
BEIJING, China, February 12, 2022 (ENS) – The endangered animals and plants protected by the global treaty known as CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, now have another layer of protection. It comes in the form of attention from the international police force Interpol, which is backing CITES in the enforcement of its regulations. […]
LONDON, UK, November 28, 2021 (ENS) – Vietnam needs international help to disrupt the operations of Vietnamese-led wildlife crime syndicates active in Africa and Asia. Despite government efforts to turn the tide of the illegal wildlife trade, Vietnamese criminal networks are still fueling poaching and the decline of biodiversity in Africa, finds a new report. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, October 4, 2021 (ENS) – The budding Coalition to End Wildlife Trafficking Online, with 47 member companies across the tech sector, issued a progress report Tuesday – collectively they have blocked 11.6 million transactions for endangered wildlife online. […]
HANOI, Vietnam, December 8, 2020 (ENS) – “The price of the private dining room would be included in the price of the pangolin, along with the rest of the dinner.” In this excerpt from his new book, “Pangolins: Scales of Injustice,” wildlife conservationist Richard Peirce recounts a trip to Vietnam during which, within 15 minutes in one restaurant, he was offered both of the animals that are the likely vectors for COVID-19 and SARS. […]
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