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I’ve been thinking these days about how we take this challenging moment, this public health crisis and consequent loss of life, our paralysed economies, and apply what we are learning to our equally urgent climate ...

The time has come for a new global agreement on wildlife crime.Read ...

Weighing up to 400 pounds with distinctive markings behind its eyes, the humphead wrasse is an endangered reef fish. It’s considered a luxury food, especially in Hong Kong, and is a victim of illegal fishing.

Campaigners argue that the current system is not fit for purpose and allows criminals to make billions from the theft and sale of wildlife, to the detriment of human health.

“We are calling for the development of an international agreement under the United Nations’ Convention on Transnational Organised Crime, in order to ensure all countries recognise the scale and serious nature of ...

Multiple conservation groups, government representatives and academics have come together to put out a global call to action to end wildlife crime, as part of UN World Wildlife Day 2020.

Saving wildlife requires us to stop the industrial scale, organised, transnational wildlife crime that is shifting thousands of tonnes of contraband, worth billions of dollars, and leaving death, destruction and instability in ...

“We are calling for the development of an international agreement under the United Nations’ Convention on Transnational Organised Crime, in order to ensure all countries recognise the scale and serious nature of ...

Illegal wildlife trafficking remains a perennial problem in Southeast Asia, but with the ongoing spread of the new coronavirus, there’s added impetus for governments in the region to clamp down on the illicit trade.

With the corona virus being linked to illegally sourced wildlife, record seizures of pangolin scales and evidence of how wildlife crime impacts climate change, John E Scanlon argues new action is urgently needed