Convention On International Trade In Endangered Species Of Wild Fauna And Flora

Ivory smuggled to China is frequently sourced from Japan’s ivory market, which remains open despite concerns over its...

In the latest crackdown on illegal fishing, Brazil’s environmental agency (Ibama) seized nearly one tonne of the protected...

Illegal economies exist around everything from narcotics to tobacco, but amongst the most troubling illegal trades is that...

In what has been described as the single largest seizure of rhino horn in Singapore’s history, authorities at Changi Airport...

An organized crime group spent years smuggling rare exotic birds from South America and Asia to collectors across Europe....

Products derived from pangolins, whose populations around the world have been brought to the brink of extinction by...

A program launched a month ago and aimed to protect the critically endangered Hawksbill turtle is already bearing fruit as...

The government of the West African nation of Gambia on Friday revoked with immediate effect all timber export licenses and...

In an unprecedented move, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) asked its members to suspend...

With the elephant population growing out of control in parts of southern Africa, several countries in the region agreed at a...

An alleged cocaine trafficker, a trail of fake paperwork, and a cluster of criminals: inside the Amazon rainforest’s illicit...

An eight-week-long global operation codenamed Golden Strike resulted in arrests and seizures across Asia and Africa,...