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Quarmy and her handler Laxmi Nandan Baruah © Assam Forest Department

27 December 2017

Wildlife sniffer dog helps apprehend poacher just a week after deployment

27th December 2017, Kaziranga National Park, India—“Quarmy”, one of 13 newly trained wildlife sniffer dogs deployed in India, has cracked her first…

One of 455 pangolins seized in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia in June 2015 © Fully Handoko/EPA

21 December 2017

Scaly Nexus: Mapping Indonesian pangolin seizures

Jakarta, Indonesia, 21st December 2017—Indonesia, one of the last strongholds of the Sunda Pangolin, has lost up to 10,000 pangolins a year to…

Training workshop held in Northwest China © TRAFFIC

20 December 2017

TRAFFIC helps organize training workshop for enforcement officers in northwest China

Xi’an, China, December 2017—More than 70 enforcement officials from the provinces of Shanxi, Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, and Xinjiang, recently attended…

Display of ivory items at a shop in Tokyo’s tourist areas. A sticker promotes “made in Japan” shown also in Chinese and Korean © TRAFFIC

20 December 2017

Ivory towers: Japan’s Ivory trade and domestic market

Tokyo, Japan, 20th December 2017—well-organized transnational criminal networks and a poorly regulated domestic market are among the factors making…

19 December 2017

New recruits bring TRAFFIC’s Super Sniffers total to 56

New Delhi, India, 19th December 2017—Last week, 13 wildlife sniffer dogs completed their training at the National Training Centre for Dogs (NTCD)…

15 December 2017

Chinese timber industry representatives visit Cameroon

Yaound é , Cameroon: December 2017—representatives from the timber industry in China visited Cameroon last week to see for themselves where timber…

A ground pangolin © David Brossard / Creative Commons 2.0

15 December 2017

The global trafficking of Pangolins: Seizures and Trafficking Routes from 2010–2015

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 15th December 2017—An average of 20 tonnes of pangolins and their parts have been trafficked internationally every year with…

The black duiker: managed hunting provides a sustainable source of wild meat for local communities © cuatrok77 / Creative Commons 2.0

12 December 2017

Growing attention to sustainable wildlife management in international biodiversity agreements

Montreal, Canada, 12th December 2017—The issue of sustainable wildlife management in all its dimensions—ranging from sustainability tools and…

Une tortue étoilée indienne: plus de 6 000 personnes auraient déjà été saisies d'un commerce international illégal en 2017 © Kirudo / Generic CC 2.0

11 December 2017

Indian Star Tortoise seizure in Thailand brings year’s total to over 6000 individuals seized

Bangkok, Thailand, 11th December 2017—on the high seas, at railway stations and markets, Star Tortoise seizures continue to make headlines with the…

8 December 2017

Africa-EU summit ends with declaration to address wildlife trafficking and promote sustainable management of natural resources

Nairobi, Kenya, and Cambridge, UK—Representatives from African Union (AU) and European Union (EU) nations meeting last week in Abidjan, Cote…

Soldiers in Garamba National Park © Jeremy T. Lock