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World Wildlife Day: UN celebration of animals and plants on 50th anniversary of CITES

The UN and CITES recently pledged to reduce the extinction rate tenfold.

Evening Standard

Three dead parrots show need for proper ban on wildlife trade

Despite an international treaty to prevent illegal trade in wild animals, the industry is worth billions. The treaty needs an overhaul.

360info

South Africa: Footage of tigers roaming the streets highlights boom in big cat farming

Footage shows two different tigers exploring the streets of South Africa during the month of January. These two escaped big cats shocked residents and one of them attacked a man. Animal rights activists say these events shine a light on the big cat breeding and export business in the country.

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Beauty breeds obsession: the fight to save orchids from a lethal black market

Behind the scenes of its 20th orchid show, the New York Botanical Garden toils to rescue endangered plants

The Guardian - US

104 shark and ray species now receive new protections, but are they enough?

Shark populations have been declining for years, largely due to overfishing. And for years, the solutions offered by researchers have included increasing the number, size and effectiveness of marine protected areas (MPA) and improving the global management of sharks and stingrays in fisheries that catch them.

The Conversation

Australians big on hunting trophies

Australians who like to kill exotic animals including bears and giraffes have made the country the 10th largest importer of hunting trophies, a new report says.

AAP

Elephant poaching rates vary across Africa: 19 years of data from 64 sites suggest why

It’s a grim and all too common sight for rangers at some of Africa’s nature reserves: the bullet-riddled carcass of an elephant, its tusks removed by poachers. African elephant populations have fallen by about 30% since 2006. Poaching has driven the decline.

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Shark fishing is a global problem that demands local solutions

Countries from around the world have voted to limit the global trade in sharks under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites). Trade in shark products is a major driver of shark overfishing, leading to the deaths of millions of sharks every year. The new Cites listings aim…

The Conversation

UN Wildlife Conference Ends with Protection for 500 Species

An international conference on trade in endangered species ended Friday in Panama, with protections established for over 500 species. The measures were approved by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, known by its initials as CITES. The conference agreed to tighten trade regulations…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Wildlife conference boosts protection for sharks, turtles

An international wildlife conference has moved to enact some of the most significant protection for shark species targeted in the fin trade and scores of turtles, lizards and frogs whose numbers are being decimated by the pet trade

The Independent UK

Japan's ivory market is no longer a threat to elephant populations – here's why

Elephants feature heavily in mythology, religion and popular culture. Yet they are hunted for their ivory tusks. Ivory poaching has led to a 70% decline in African elephant numbers over the past 40 years.

The Conversation

Shark fin trade regulated at last in landmark decision

The ruling at a major wildlife conference finally takes major steps to address the overfishing and lack of regulation that has been pushing sharks to extinction

The Guardian - US

Shark fin hunters targeted, wildlife summit extends protection

PANAMA CITY: A global wildlife summit in Panama took an important step Thursday towards upgrading protection for sharks, the ancient ocean vertebrates targeted for their fins used in a status-symbol soup.

Bangkok Post

Hippos, sharks up for protection at UN wildlife conference

Hippos that are poached for their skin and teeth and sharks that are caught for their fins are up for protection at a United Nations wildlife conference

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Turtles in demand as pets, leading to a spike in poaching

Scores of turtle species are under threat from poaching

The Guardian - UK

Ten African countries accuse EU of failing to protect hippos

Brussels’ plan to oppose a ban on trade in hippopotamus products puts species at risk, says letter signed by states, including Mali, Niger and Senegal

The Conversation

'Astonishing': global demand for exotic pets is driving a massive trade in unprotected wildlife

Global demand for exotic pets is increasing, a trend partly caused by social media and a shift from physical pet stores to online marketplaces.

The Guardian - UK

Call for hippos to join list of world’s most endangered animals

New classification would mean a total ban on international trade in the animal’s body parts, as climate crisis and poaching hit populations

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The Independent UK

Botswana tight lipped on the value of its ivory stockpile

Botswana is among the countries supporting the bid to overturn CITES ban on legal ivory trade at CoP19

The Independent UK

Zimbabwe opens conference to promote sales of elephant ivory

Zimbabwe has opened an international conference to try to win international support for its campaign to be allowed to sell its stockpile of seized ivory

Salon

Norway is killing confiscated wildlife

In order to uphold a treaty designed to protect animals, many countries have turned to systematic euthanization

The Conversation

How blending Inuit knowledge and western science has helped improve polar bear health — and why a trade ban would hurt

Nanuk, the Inuktitut word for polar bear, is an iconic animal, capturing public imaginations and starring in international marketing campaigns. As nanuk has increasingly been used as the poster species for climate change, it has also become separated in the popular imagination from the peoples and communities of the North.

The Guardian - AU

Australia adds 127 reptiles to global treaty in crackdown on ‘cruel and abhorrent’ smuggling

Blue-tongue lizards among species to get stronger international protections

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