Cameroon elephant poaching crisis spreads
Cameroon, 29th March 2012—Just weeks after a military offensive against elephant poachers in Bouba N’Djida National Park in the north of Cameroon, 12 suspected poachers have been arrested and 14...
View ArticleCentral African countries agree plan to improve law enforcement and combat...
N’Djamena, Chad, 7th June 2012—Central African countries yesterday signed a groundbreaking regional plan to strengthen law enforcement and better combat poaching of elephants and other species at risk...
View ArticleExperts report highest elephant poaching and ivory smuggling rates in a decade
Geneva, 21st June 2012 – Elephant poaching levels are the worst in a decade and recorded ivory seizures are at their highest levels since 1989, according to a report published today by the Convention...
View ArticleMassive African ivory seizure in Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 11th December 2012 – Royal Malaysian Customs have made their largest ever seizure of ivory in transit through the country, finding 1,500 pieces of tusks hidden in wooden crates...
View ArticleNew report confirms ‘major surge’ in ivory smuggling in 2011
Geneva, 20th December 2012—Illegal trade in ivory is at its highest levels in nearly two decades, and 2011 witnessed a ‘major surge’, according to a report released by the Convention on International...
View ArticleMozambique commits to tackling wildlife crime
Maputo, Mozambique, 30th July 2013—Under increasing pressure from CITES, neighbouring South Africa and the international conservation community, Mozambican government officials have committed to...
View ArticleLegal reform must shut down Thailand’s ivory trade
Bangkok, Thailand, 12th August 2013—On World Elephant Day (August 12), WWF and TRAFFIC urge Thailand’s Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, to ensure legal reform, including steps outlined in...
View ArticleRoyal Thai Police seize live Elephants in clampdown on illegal trade
Thailand, 21st August 2013—The Royal Thai Police have seized more than a dozen unregistered and illegally registered elephants from camps in three provinces in the south of Thailand as part of sweeping...
View ArticleCustoms in Thailand seize over 100 kg of ivory from luggage
Bangkok, Thailand, 1st September 2013 – Authorities at Suvarnabhumi International Airport last week discovered 105 kg of ivory hidden in four suitcases in the first seizure of illegal elephant ivory at...
View ArticleNew figures reveal poaching for the illegal ivory trade could wipe out a...
Gaborone, Botswana, 2nd December 2013—As delegates gather to discuss the plight of the African Elephant at a summit convened by the Government of Botswana and the International Union for Conservation...
View ArticleNations agree “Urgent Measures” to curb elephant poaching
Gaborone, Botswana, 5th December 2013—Government delegates representing 30 countries meeting this week in Gaborone to discuss the elephant poaching crisis and unprecedented illegal ivory trade have...
View ArticleThailand must act to prevent resurgence of illegal wild elephant trade
Bangkok, Thailand, 7th July 2014—Wild live elephants are being illegally captured to supply the lucrative tourism industry in Thailand and urgent changes to the country’s legislation and elephant...
View ArticleThailand must address illegal ivory trade or could face sanctions: CITES
Geneva, Switzerland, July 2014—An intercessional meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) ended earlier this month with Thailand agreeing...
View ArticleNew report identifies actions needed to curtail illegal ivory and rhino horn...
Washington DC, 22nd September 2014—Illegal rhino horn trade has reached the highest levels since the early 1990s, and illegal trade in ivory increased by nearly 300 percent from 1998 to 2011, according...
View ArticleLargest ever rhino horn seizure reported in Mozambique
Cambridge, UK, 15th May 2015—Police in Mozambique are reported to have seized a staggering 65 rhinos horns, together with 1.1 tonnes of elephant ivory. One Asian national is said to have been arrested...
View ArticleTanzania begins to face its elephant disaster
Tanzania, June 2015—Tanzanian Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism Lazaro Nyalandu yesterday announced the latest estimates of elephant populations in Tanzania, demonstrating a catastrophic...
View ArticleVital evidence goes up in smoke
Mozambique, 7th July 2015—Mozambique yesterday destroyed 2434.6 kg of elephant ivory and 86 pieces of rhino horn weighing a total of 193.5 kg, according to media reports.
View ArticleTRAFFIC’s Milliken receives top award for services to conservation
Cambridge, UK, 29th September 2015—Tom Milliken, TRAFFIC’s Elephant and Rhino Programme Leader and the organization’s longest serving staff member is among the recipients of this year’s prestigious Sir...
View ArticleSophisticated poachers could undercut bold Kenyan fight against wildlife...
Nairobi, Kenya 9th May, 2016—Kenya is taking a bold stand against wildlife crime through improved enforcement action, higher penalties for wildlife criminals and last year it was the only African range...
View ArticleMalaysia key conduit in global illegal ivory trade
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 8th September 2016—A new TRAFFIC analysis points to Malaysia as the world’s paramount ivory transit country, with its ports serving as a major gateway for the flow of tonnes of...
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