Schoolbags and Toys Popular Methods for Smuggling Animals Overseas

... efforts to detect and prosecute wildlife crimes, smugglers turn to ever ... by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild ... in the prevention of the illegal wildlife trade. A snake was discovered on ...

Activists Don Animal Costumes to Protest Jatinegara Wildlife Market

Jakarta. Activists from Scorpion Wildlife Trade Monitoring Group, a local animal ...  to shut down the Jatinegara wildlife market in the eastern part ... not received the report, but [illegal wildlife trade] is certainly prohibited," Ahok told ...

Thai Authorities Keeping Tabs on Tagged Tigers

Bangkok. Thai wildlife authorities began checking microchips and ... new ways to tackle the illegal wildlife trade. The Sriracha Zoo in Chonburi ... increased scrutiny in Thailand after wildlife authorities found scores of dead ...

New Hope for Indonesia's Pangolins and Helmeted Hornbills on World Animal Day

... continued the fight for wildlife conservation at the 17th ... two decades due to illegal trade. The ban was unanimously ... Andayani, director of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Indonesia ... attire. According to the Wildlife Conservation Society, helmeted hornbills ...

United Nations Calls on Countries to Close Down Legal Ivory Trade

... moment towards tackling the illegal ivory trade that is killing ... fuelling elephant poaching because illegal ivory is sometimes sold ... into the country," said Wildlife Conservation Society vice president ... ivory will not curb the illegal trade. "In the history ...

Authorities Seize Sumatran Tiger Skin in Riau

... between the ministry, World Wildlife Fund and the Natural ... uncover more of these illegal acts, especially with the ... rapidly due to deforestation. Wildlife crime watchdog Traffic has stated ... fallen victim to the illegal wildlife trade over the past 15 ...

Trade in Endangered Tigers Increasing in Asia: Wildlife Watchdog

Jakarta. The wildlife trade monitoring network known as Traffic, and the World Wildlife Fund ... have published a new report on the illegal trade in ... an increasing role in fueling illegal trade," Traffic executive director Steven Broad ...

No More Trade in Endangered Pangolins, UN Meeting Decides

... 29/09) banned global trade in highly endangered pangolins, ... s Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, ... the World Wildlife Fund. Like other illicit wildlife commodity pipelines, ... 21 years due to illegal trade. Conservationists have said the ...

Commentary: It’s Time to Get Serious About Wildlife Crime

... from the fate of illegal wildlife trafficking and is now ... way, to counter the illegal trade in all its forms, ... species. Illegal trade in wildlife, one of the largest illegal trades in ... build awareness of the illegal trade in wildlife and embolden everyone ...

Two Nabbed in N. Sumatra for Selling Endangered Slow Lorises

...  is part of a larger illegal protected wildlife trade network. Officials hope his ... to numerous incidents of illegal hunting and trade," Halasan said. Indra, coordinator ... his first involvement in the illegal wildlife trade. "He's not a new ...