Two people from Vietnam have been charged with smuggling tigers. The thanhniennews.com website cites a report in local paper Tuoi Tre that revealed that Nguyen Quoc Truong and Nguyen Thi Thuy Mui have been prosecuted for smuggling both live and dead
The skins of snow leopards, leopards and tigers are openly on sale in shops, an investigation has revealed. Buyers come from all over China to purchase the skins which are marketed as rugs or taxidermy specimens.
Officials from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have revealed that they have completed a project designed to improve the way authorities identify rare and protected animals.
The "shortfall" in ivory described in the document between 1991 and 2002 -- equal to the tusks from about 11,000 dead elephants -- could provide fodder for representatives of a U.N. accord to reject China's attempt next week to gain permission to import
Succumbing to the massive Chinese demand for ivory carvings and trinkets is likely to give an enormous boost to the illegal, poaching-based trade, conservationists have warned.
They say if China becomes an approved ivory trading partner, African eleph
UNITED NATIONS - China's government lost track of 121 tons of elephant ivory over a dozen years that probably were sold on illegal markets, according to a previously undisclosed Chinese report to UN regulatory officials.
The "shortfall" in ivory descri
The standing committee of the UN's Convention on Endangered Species (Cites) is meeting in Geneva. Key measures for the protection of endangered plants and animals will be decided at the five-day meeting.
China wants UN's Convention on Endangered Species (Cites) to approve China's import and trade in ivory, thereby fueling illegal trade in ivory and the further demise of the world's elephants.
Britain is poised to approve China's application today to become a licensed ivory trader in spite of protests from environmental and animal welfare groups and nearly 150 MPs, and Labour MPs are pinning the blame on Gordon Brown.
The minister
