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Usually the stars of horror stories, tarantulas and scorpions might be widely feared, but a recent study from the Philippines ...
Hanoi, Viet Nam - A new Guidebook developed by TRAFFIC is now available to employ Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) ...
What if we could protect the world’s forests and support the communities who rely on them — simply by making smarter decisions about how we trade wild plants? Today, TRAFFIC is proud to launch a major ...
After eluding arrest for more than a decade, a prolific long-time online wildlife trafficker has been caught in the Philippines with 83 animals, including the endemic and Critically Endangered ...
Madagascar’s extraordinary medicinal plants, prized for their unique properties and used in life-saving cancer drugs and health products, are being harvested in unregulated quantities for local and ...
Increasing demand for ‘the wood of the gods’ could threaten the survival of wild Aquilaria trees in the Philippines, according to new research. Incense, perfume, threatened trees? Illegal collection ...
The global trade in wild species involves thousands of different species, environments, commodities, supply chains, and consumer markets. Poaching and trafficking, as well as legal yet unsustainable ...
This briefing aims to provide an overview of all CITES-related seizures reported by the Member States of the European Union (EU) for the 12 months from January to December 2022. The European Union (EU ...
New analysis by TRAFFIC and WWF-India found almost 16,000 kg of shark fins were seized between January 2010 to December 2022. They constituted the most common shark-derived product seized, reported in ...
There are only an estimated 6,500 adults left in the wild. Cheetahs already face multiple threats to their survival in the wild, including habitat loss, prey depletion, low genetic diversity, and ...
The new Director of Development, Chief Operating Officer and Director of Communications will support TRAFFIC in its work to drive action around trade in wild species - one of the world's most pressing ...