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CITES made amazing strides in battle against illegal wildlife trade, says outgoing Scanlon

Secretary-General of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), John E. Scanlon, who will soon be completing his...

admin - February 7, 2018

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Hong Kong votes to impose domestic ivory ban by 2021

The Hong Kong Legislative Council on Wednesday, January 31, 2018 voted to pass a bill that will end local ivory trade in Hong Kong,...

admin - January 31, 2018

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South Africa announces minor decrease in rhino poaching for 2017

Fewer rhinos were poached across South Africa in 2017, in comparison with same period in 2016, Environmental Affairs Minister, Edna Molewa, announced on Thursday,...

admin - January 25, 2018

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Rhino poaching in SA still ‘unacceptably high’ – TRAFFIC

TRAFFIC, the Wildlife Trade Monitoring Network, has described as "tiny" the rate of decrease of rhino poaching in South Africa in 2017 compared to...

admin - January 25, 2018

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Fighting corruption in forest conservation: Kenya’s multi-stakeholder task force

Corruption and climate change are arguably the defining challenges facing the world today. Both problems – and their solutions – are interlinked. In particular, corruption...

admin - January 25, 2018

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Protected areas threatened by overexploitation, human activity – Study

Protected areas across the world are most threatened by unsustainable resource use and human disturbance, a new study has found. The authors of this paper, published this...

admin - January 18, 2018

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Kenya welcomes UK’s plan on ending domestic ivory markets

Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has welcomed the British government’s plan to close – with some limited exemptions – its domestic ivory markets. Ivory (whether raw...

admin - January 17, 2018

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EU-funded scheme: Guards kills indigenous Sengwer man in Kenya

Forty one-year-old Robert Kirotich was on Tuesday, January 16, 2018 reportedly shot by EU-funded guards working for the Kenya Forestry Service. Another wounded man,...

admin - January 17, 2018

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