A crackdown on illegal tiger products in China has created a soaring trade in lion bones from South Africa to Asia, ecologists say.Alleged ‘tiger’-infused wines and traditional medicines are popular in China. But when the country tightened its rules on selling parts from tigers and other...
July 13, at the area of Metro supermarket’s gate on Pham Van Dong street, Environment Police Department of Bac Tu Liem District Police seized 3 slow lorises being transported by Le Duc Minh. Earlier in June 2015, Minh bought these slow lorises from an unknown man at the area of Dinh Tien Hoang...
Vietnamese youth have apologised to South Africa on behalf of Vietnam for the manner in which the use of rhino horn has resulted in a dramatic decline in rhino populations.The youngsters had been South Africa as part of government’s anti-poaching initiative.Before boarding the plane ...
Scientists are hoping to save the endangered black rhinoceros and even resurrect extinct rhino subspecies after successfully crowdfunding $16,500 (€15,000) for a genome sequencing project. The research team, led by Dr Chuck Murry of the University of Washington, is seeking to sequence the genet...
The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), a statutory multi-disciplinary body set up by the Centre under the Ministry of Environment and Forests to combat organized wildlife crime in the country, has arrested one person and seized around one kg of pangolin shells from him in the southern Odisha city...
As of today there has been no official update on rhino poaching in South Africa but a reputable non-government organisation (NGO) said the death toll at the end of June stood at 595. This means South Africa is losing rhino at a rate of around 100 a month. If this trend continues the country will hav...
On July 13, Customs officers at Taiwan’s main airport confiscated 5.6kg of undeclared raw ivory that was brought into the country by a Taiwanese woman returning from Hong Kong. The woman was on a Cathay Pacific Airways flight, carrying 120 pieces of raw ivory hidden in peanut candy packages in...
Assam police CPRO Rajib Saikia said that the poachers were nabbed from a area under Burhapahar forest range under Jakhalabandha police station in Nagaon district on Saturday and they were identified as Gopi Rongpi, Latu Routia and Dhangsa Orang. "The poachers were involved in the rhino killing on Ju...
On July 8, Bac Giang Police Department stopped the car plated 30A - 167.09 driven by Nguyen Van An (living in Nghe An) en route to Lang Son. After searching the car, the police found 32kg of snakes (common rat snake, banded krait, Indochinese rat snake) and 19 turtles weighing 7,5kg.[VN]
Mr. Nguyen Phu Trong, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) paid a historic visit to the United States and met with President Barack Obama at the White House on July 7. On this occasion the two countries adopted a Joint Vision Statement, in which wildlife...