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...
At the invitation of the Administration of President Barack Obama, His Excellency Nguyen Phu Trong, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), paid a historic visit to the United States, the first by a CPV’s General Secretary. On this occasion, which in...
Authorities in Mozambique on July 6 burned more than 2.6 tonnes of ivory and rhino horns confiscated during various anti-poaching busts, demonstrating a tough stance on wildlife trafficking. It was the first time that Mozambique destroyed illegally gotten ivory and rhino horns, following in the foot...
Mozambique plans to destroy more than one ton of confiscated ivory as well as 53 rhino horns to show its resolve in the fight against poaching, citing Mozambican authorities, the Wildlife Conservation Society said the destruction of the stockpile will happen Monday in Maputo, the capital.[EN]
On July 4, authorities at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport stopped the shipment which was inside two wooden crates marked ''marble pieces'' that contained four suitcases with the ivory inside. They seized 250 kilos of ivory -- or about 130 tusks and pieces. The haul was headed from Congo to Laos and t...